Penfolds, the flagship brand of Australian wine giant Treasury Wine Estates, will be adding Napa wines and a new special bottlings range including a brandy, a Chinese Baijiu-infused Shiraz and a Champagne, reinforcing the company’s multi-region and multi-country sourcing philosophy.
Starting in California from the 2018 harvest onwards, the Penfolds winemaking team will be making a new range of wines using the best Napa Valley grapes.
A Barossa shiraz fortified with baijiu (a fiery, Chinese grain spirit), Lot. 518 will be introduced in September 2018, with a reported $110 retail price. The Barossa shiraz contains 6% baijiu spirit to capitalise on the company’s booming exports to China in recent years.
As part of the ‘Special Bottlings’ range, Penfolds has just released ‘Lot. 1990,’ a 28-year-old single-batch brandy.
The third, and final, release will be a Champagne, which Penfolds plans to have in the market in time for its 175th anniversary, in 2019.
