No wine in the 2026 Penfolds Collection rose in price — a Penfolds first. Here's the whole release read through six years of price data, top to bottom, plus the new bottle and the wines that matter. [Penfolds Collection 2026: Ten Things You Should Know].
Part of [The Penfolds Collection, Year by Year].
Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
