South Australia’s famed purveyors of opulence, luxury retreat Kingsford the Barossa and legendary Penfolds Wines, have blended the best of both worlds into one ultimate indulgence: the Icons of Penfolds experience. An exclusive, tailored wine and hospitality celebration of 180 years of Penfolds and the 60th anniversary of Bin 707 Cabernet Sauvignon.
This one-of-a-kind experience has been curated for those of us with an inclination for the extraordinary, willing to invest in singular lifestyle-defining choices that, once experienced, are never forgotten.
From late afternoon to evening, you’ll glide from one moment of awe to the next, guided by Kingsford The Barossa’s pre-eminent team as you explore their estate before your private Penfolds wine tasting (including the iconic Penfolds Grange), followed by a curated four-course dinner paired with Penfolds wines at Orleana Restaurant.
The Penfolds Icon experience aspires to deepen your appreciation of one of Australia’s greatest wineries and expand the perceived boundaries of South Australia’s luxury landscape.
This is an opportunity to write yourself into the Penfolds story by taking part in this historic homage amid Kingsford the Barossa’s exquisite setting, with a wine-tasting and dining experience as infrequent and precious as gold dust.
Within Kingsford The Barossa’s jaw-dropping, slate-encased, underground wine chambers, you will be welcomed into Penfold’s exclusive ‘Vault 2’ for a private tasting experience of Penfold’s wines — a selection that is rarely offered for tasting anywhere else in Australia or the world.
The Icons of Penfold’s wine selection will forever raise your benchmark of expectations upon tasting this sublime offering:
- Penfolds Yattarna Chardonnay
- Penfolds II Dourthe Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot MV
- Penfolds Quantum Cabernet Sauvignon
- Penfolds Superblend 802.B Cabernet Shiraz
- Penfolds Bin 707 Cabernet Sauvignon
- Penfolds Grange
Those who understand and appreciate the calibre of these wines and the indulgent Orleana Restaurant dining experience will be cognizant of the value of this $895 per-person experience.
Whether you arrive at Kingsford the Barossa via an easy drive from Adelaide or you land via helicopter upon their vast fields, you will feel welcomed and at home within minutes of your arrival.
With relaxation at the forefront of your itinerary, you will be guided around and through the history of Kingsford The Barossa’s 225-acre estate, featuring the stunning two-storey, 168-year-old, Georgian-style sandstone homestead that’s anchored within South Australia’s pioneering, pastoral and entertainment history.
Kingsford The Barossa’s fusion of character-laced heritage and contemporary innovations is inextricably intertwined, resulting in a sublimely rich, comfortable, relaxing, and exciting experience. This ability to successfully deliver two contrasting attributes, tradition and innovation, in one experience binds Kingsford the Barossa with Penfold’s exceptional portfolio.
Once your senses have been revived from your estate tour and your palates elevated to another plane after your private Penfold Icons tasting experience, you’ll ascend further into a culinary utopia with Orleana Restaurant’s curated four-course dining menu matched with Penfold’s wines.
Amid Orleana Restaurant’s decadent dedication to Penfolds, you’ll enjoy a cheeky pairing of the Grange with a meat pie (unlike any other meat pie you’ll ever taste), a homage to Max Schubert’s love of this classic Australian meal.
Wine lovers worldwide have a lot to be thankful to Max for beyond the Grange. He was also the mastermind behind Penfolds’ Bin wines. It was while Max was perfecting his first experimental Grange in 1951, wanting to keep it a secret, that he generated the generic storage identification ‘Bin 1’, which indicated the type, style, and location of the wine but nothing more.
This efficient storage system soon became a distinctive Penfold’s labelling tradition when, in 1959, Max created a Shiraz using grapes from their Barossa Valley Kalimna vineyard, double-dipping on its Bin 28 storage name by using it as its label name, thus making it the inaugural wine marketed under the Bin category, now a trademark Penfolds tradition.
Fast-forward 12 years and leapfrog over a few hundred bins to reach Bin 707 Cabernet Sauvignon. This sublime Cabernet Sauvignon has entered its 60th year as the first commercial release of a single Cabernet-based wine. Throughout the decades, it has consistently set the benchmark for Australian Cabernet Sauvignon while also showcasing Penfolds’ House Style of multi-vineyard, multi-region, richly flavoured fruit-sourced wines that retain their full-bodied, consummate Cabernet qualities and reliably impressive cellaring potential.
With Penfold’s Grange dominating industry headlines for well over 70 years, their 180th birthday is a reminder of the enormous success they’d garnered over 100 years before Penfolds’ former Chief winemaker, Max Schubert AM’s bold attempt to realise his goal of creating the Grange, a wine that could be cellared for at least twenty years and still be considered a superlative sip upon its first gasp of oxygen.
It was in 1844 that established winemakers Dr Christopher and Mary Penfold sailed into South Australia with their four-year-old daughter Georgina and sufficient grapevine cuttings of French grenache to establish a vineyard on their 500-acre property in the district of Magill, upon which their new home, Grange Cottage, already stood, along with the required buildings and crops to establish a livelihood.
Pioneers from the get-go, this entrepreneurial couple set about making a living. Dr Chris pursued his medical ambitions while Mary and her assistants planted the Grenache cuttings, developing their range over the years with other acclimatised varieties grown within and for the local soils and climate.
Over the next couple of decades, Mary developed Penfolds’ vineyards to the point where she was exporting wines and winning international prizes while remaining at the forefront of winemaking innovation. She ensured the quality and longevity of the wines and Penfolds’ winery through her diligent succession planning, which has resulted in an ongoing custodianship steeped in loyalty and pride.
This legacy continues with today’s winemaking team, which has over 200 years of experience as Penfolds winemakers between them. Headed up by Chief Winemaker Peter Gago AC since 2002, they’ve kept the spirit of blending tradition with innovation alive, honouring the past while remaining at the Vanguard of the Australian wine industry.
While you can step into the Icons of Penfold experience as a day guest, to truly augment your relaxation and enjoyment, we recommend you book a night in Kingsford The Barossa’s contemporary Valley View suites or embrace the pioneering era within their vintage homestead.
For more information, bookings and costs, visit Kingsford The Barossa’s Icons of Penfolds experience website page or refer to the information below:
All you need to know about Kingsford The Barossa Icons of Penfolds experience:
What: Kingsford The Barossa | Icons of Penfolds experience
Cost: $895 per person
Experience includes:
* Personal tour, wine and storytelling experience of Kingsford The Barossa and Penfolds most Luxe wines.
* Guided wine tasting in the Kingsford The Barossa underground wine vault
* Grange food pairing moment reflecting Max Schubert’s love of meat pies
* Curated four-course dining menu paired with Penfold’s wines in Orleana Restaurant
Experience available: Monday – Sunday for dinner from 4pm, Saturday and Sunday for lunch at 11am, by reservation only.
Where: Kingsford The Barossa – 68 Kingsford Road, Kingsford
Phone: (+61) 08 8524 8120
Bookings: ICONS OF PENFOLDS at Kingsford The Barossa – Penfolds Barossa Valley Cellar Door by Rezdy Reservations
Website: www.kingsfordbarossa.com.au
General Enquiries & Accommodation: [email protected]
Orleana Restaurant: [email protected]
Weddings: [email protected]
Corporate & Special Event Enquiries: [email protected]
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