Penfolds RWT has always been a wine we liked ever since we encountered a bottle at a KCCWS wine dinner well over ten years ago, at which the theme was Winpac medalists. This was the one wine which stood out the whole evening and we went back to the bottle again and again, and we also noted down its name. That was actually the first vintage of 1997, and it was being introduced to Hong Kong at the time. Then I found out that there was a steep price to match its quality. Unlike its flagship Grange (which is a blend across different regions), the fruit for this wine all comes from the Barossa Valley and then the wine is aged in French oak. We had the above bottled recently over the Christmas holidays, but that is for another blog.
BTW, RWT stood for Red Winemaking Trials, an operational designation during the development of this wine.
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