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Sydney Morning Herald
02-05-2025
- Business
- Sydney Morning Herald
Penfolds' new wine is controversial and boasts a super-sized price tag. What's the fuss about?
At $3500 a bottle, Penfolds-Jaboulet La Grange is sure to be a bloody fine wine. What should we make of the latest crazily priced Penfolds wine, the French-Australian shiraz, Penfolds-Jaboulet La Grange? Is it just marketing? ―A.C., Wangaratta, VIC Wine has long had one foot in the luxury business. First Growth Bordeaux, Château d'Yquem and grand cru Burgundy have been luxury wines for centuries. Now California, Tuscany, Champagne and dozens of other regions have luxury wines because there are more prosperous people in the world who want to drink them. Penfolds' owner, Treasury Wine Estates, is committed to joining the global luxury goods business. The controversial wine is a 50/50 blend of Penfolds Grange with one of the most exalted French wines, Paul Jaboulet's Hermitage La Chapelle, which is also a syrah (shiraz). Both parts are 2021 vintage and the price is $3500 for one bottle. To some collectors, it doesn't matter that they could buy a bottle of each and blend them in their kitchen for a lot less money ($1800). International blending of wine isn't rare. Jacob's Creek bottles and Coolabah casks had Chilean wine in them last century when – it's hard to believe now – we had a shortage of grapes. Up until the early 20th century, it was common, in Bordeaux, to blend wine from other parts of France to bolster its red in bad years. Château Palmer revived this recently with its Historical XIXth Century Wine, which blends Rhône Valley syrah with Bordeaux cabernet and merlot. Penfolds also makes special bottlings that blend South Australia wines with those from California and Bordeaux. 'Collectors could buy a bottle of each and blend them in their kitchen for a lot less money ($1800).' At the end of the day, the Penfolds-Jaboulet La Grange is sure to be a bloody fine wine. Indeed, all of the Pennies wines with the super-sized price tags that I've tasted over the years are excellent and very age-worthy, so they satisfy the collector/speculator buyer as well as the wine-loving drinker. It's not for me – it's not aimed at anyone on a wine-writer's budget – but I don't have a complaint about the fact that it exists, as some critics evidently do. Psst! If anyone out there has a bottle of the La Grange, I'd love to try it.
The Age
02-05-2025
- Business
- The Age
Penfolds' new wine is controversial and boasts a super-sized price tag. What's the fuss about?
At $3500 a bottle, Penfolds-Jaboulet La Grange is sure to be a bloody fine wine. What should we make of the latest crazily priced Penfolds wine, the French-Australian shiraz, Penfolds-Jaboulet La Grange? Is it just marketing? ―A.C., Wangaratta, VIC Wine has long had one foot in the luxury business. First Growth Bordeaux, Château d'Yquem and grand cru Burgundy have been luxury wines for centuries. Now California, Tuscany, Champagne and dozens of other regions have luxury wines because there are more prosperous people in the world who want to drink them. Penfolds' owner, Treasury Wine Estates, is committed to joining the global luxury goods business. The controversial wine is a 50/50 blend of Penfolds Grange with one of the most exalted French wines, Paul Jaboulet's Hermitage La Chapelle, which is also a syrah (shiraz). Both parts are 2021 vintage and the price is $3500 for one bottle. To some collectors, it doesn't matter that they could buy a bottle of each and blend them in their kitchen for a lot less money ($1800). International blending of wine isn't rare. Jacob's Creek bottles and Coolabah casks had Chilean wine in them last century when – it's hard to believe now – we had a shortage of grapes. Up until the early 20th century, it was common, in Bordeaux, to blend wine from other parts of France to bolster its red in bad years. Château Palmer revived this recently with its Historical XIXth Century Wine, which blends Rhône Valley syrah with Bordeaux cabernet and merlot. Penfolds also makes special bottlings that blend South Australia wines with those from California and Bordeaux. 'Collectors could buy a bottle of each and blend them in their kitchen for a lot less money ($1800).' At the end of the day, the Penfolds-Jaboulet La Grange is sure to be a bloody fine wine. Indeed, all of the Pennies wines with the super-sized price tags that I've tasted over the years are excellent and very age-worthy, so they satisfy the collector/speculator buyer as well as the wine-loving drinker. It's not for me – it's not aimed at anyone on a wine-writer's budget – but I don't have a complaint about the fact that it exists, as some critics evidently do. Psst! If anyone out there has a bottle of the La Grange, I'd love to try it.
South China Morning Post
04-03-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Meet Channing Tatum's new girlfriend, model Inka Williams: Australia-born and Indonesia-raised, she's been called the ‘Gigi Hadid of Bali' and has modelled for Vogue Arabia
Four months after his break up with ex-fiancée Zoë Kravitz, Channing Tatum, 44, has a new Aussie love interest in his life. The Magic Mike actor was spotted spending some quality time with Australian model Inka Williams at the Santa Monica Proper Hotel in January. More recently, the two appeared together at an exclusive pre-Oscars party in Los Angeles – with Kravitz also in attendance. Advertisement In an interview for Elle magazine's March issue, Zoë Kravitz , who dated Tatum for three years before they called it quits in 2024, spoke of her relationship with Tatum and working on their 2024 film, Blink Twice. 'I care for him very much,' Kravitz said. 'Even when you bring up how great his performance is [in Blink Twice], it warms my heart to hear that, and I'm so happy that all of it happened.' 'I just feel so grateful that we got to go on that journey together,' she added. As it seems both Tatum and Kravitz are moving on from their relationship, here's everything to know about Channing Tatum's much younger girlfriend. She's been a model since she was six months old Inka Williams has been modelling since early childhood. Photo: @inkawilliams/Instagram According to her IMDB bio, Inka Williams is of French-Australian descent. She was born on September 9, 1999 in Melbourne but was raised in Bali, Indonesia, as per Williams was only six months old when she did her first photo shoot, and has since appeared in advertisements for brands such as O'Neil, Volcom, Supre and Spell Designs, as per her IMDB.
