Penfolds uncorks international flavours

[Mahmoud Ali]

I stumbled on the answer to my question about who makes the Champagne:

"So mightily have Chinese sales swollen Treasury coffers that TWE is on the trail of acquisition themselves, in some of Europe’s most hallowed wine regions. Penfolds have just launched a range of champagnes, co-branded with champagne producer Thiénot, and are aiming to buy some of the world’s most expensive vineyard land, in Champagne. Earlier this year Treasury bought a Bordeaux château, Cambon La Pelouse, a solid cru bourgeois. But a TWE director assured me during my recent visit to Australia that what they are really after is several notches above cru bourgeois in Bordeaux’s strict ranking, a classed growth property."

The Champagne I've bought, labelled 'La Mysteriale', doesn't mention Penfold's so there must be other, probably more expensive, Champagne with the Thiénot and Penfold's names.