Wine and sympathy
Wine and sympathy
Oct 2, 2010 6
Penfolds is the rare producer where the job description for its winemakers includes playing therapist for its customers. Since 1991, the famous Australian winery has travelled the world and recorked nearly 100,000 bottles of its wines.
These free clinics are open to anyone with Penfolds wines that are 15 years or older. Currently the team is evaluating wines from the 1995 vintage and beyond.
Bottles brought to the clinic are examined and, possibly, tasted. If found to be in perfect condition, they are topped up with the most recent vintage of the same wine, recorked and given a special sticker of authenticity signed by chief winemaker Peter Gago. The sticker carries a unique
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