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Early in 2021, Peter Gago, chief winemaker at Penfolds, introduced me to four new California-based wines over a Zoom call. He had sent two bottles of each wine for our meeting and, later, we included a set in our blind tastings. As in the past, the Penfolds’ lineup swept our South Australia tastings; and these new ....
From left to right: Andrew Baldwin, Penfolds Red Winemaker, Peter Gago, Penfolds Chief Winemaker, and Steph Dutton, Senior Red Winemaker (Photo courtesy of Treasury Wine Estates) Having worked for decades with fruit from their Camatta Hills estate vineyard in Creston, southeast of Paso Robles, the Penfolds team more recently began to tap into the Napa ....
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There are four wines in this inaugural Penfolds California collection – two which are made purely from Californian fruit and two which are a blend of Australian and Californian wines. It’s fair to say that Peter Gago has a pretty thick skin – thicker than a Shiraz berry at veraison – but what would you expect from an Aussie grafted onto Geordie rootstock? Here’s a man who’s only the fourth person to hold the post of chief winemaker for Penfolds since the first vine was planted by Dr Christopher Penfold in 1844, and when he took the post 19 years ago he said he wasn’t going to change anything. ....