Ten Things You Need to Know about The Penfolds Collection 2025.

These are my personal Top 5 selections from The Penfolds Collection 2025.

Campbell Mattinson reviews a fourteen-year-old example of Penfolds Yattarna Chardonnay 2011.

Yesterday, in 2025, I had the chance to re-visit the Penfolds Block 42 Kalimna Cabernet Sauvignon 1996.

Penfolds Grange and La Chapelle, two of the world's most famous shiraz-based wines, have made an international super-blend. It's called Grange La Chapelle 2021. The Hill of Hermitage and various South Australian vineyards combine here to create a wine like no other.

The story of Penfolds has become muddled over the years but as the 2024 Penfolds Collection so ably proves, the Penfolds wines themselves are in great shape, more consistently excellent than ever.

Penfolds Bin 180 Cabernet Shiraz 2021 is a special wine.

I could throw a blanket over many of them but these are my personal Top 5 of the 2024 Penfolds Collection.

The wines themselves are in great shape, more consistently excellent than ever, but the story of Penfolds has become about head office, about luxury for luxury’s sake, and about wine scores. The score is a story, for sure, but it’s everyone’s story and because it is, it eventually wears thin.

Mattinson’s thoughts on Penfolds Grange Shiraz 1983.