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Rare ’51 Grange sets new world record at auction July 20th, 2021 A rare bottle of Penfolds Grange 1951, which was signed and recorked by Max Schubert, has gone under the hammer at a Langton’s auction for $142,131, breaking the previous record of $103,000. The world record bid for the wine marks it as the most expensive bottle of Australian wine ever sold, and at the price of $141K, makes it roughly worth more than $28K per glass. The bottle is one of the few rare examples in existence of th...

Current bid for rare 1951 Grange breaking world record for most expensive bottle of Australian wine ever sold July 14th, 2021 Jacob Parker, a senior wine broker at Langton’s, posted on Linkedin that the rare 1951 bottle of Penfolds Grange Hermitage currently has a world record-smashing bid. The bid has beaten the current world record for the most expensive bottle of Australian wine by $38.5K, according to the wine broker. The wine is currently sitting pretty at auction, which closes on 18 Jul...

Penfolds Grange 1951 bottle expected to smash world record price July 5th, 2021 Image: Max Schubert with Grange. A rare bottle of Penfolds Grange 1951 that is made even rarer having been signed and re-corked by hand by Chief Winemaker and creator of Penfolds Grange Max Schubert is expected to break the world record price if it sells at the online Langton’s Rewards of Patience auction this month. “This bottle is one of a kind in the world, and I’ve never seen anything like it in my more th...

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 E-Mail While the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system has become the poster child for innovation in synthetic biology, it has some major limitations. CRISPR-Cas9 can be programmed to find and cut specific pieces of DNA, but editing the DNA to create desired mutations requires tricking the cell into using a new piece of DNA to repair the break. This bait-and-switch can be complicated to orchestrate, and can even be toxic to cells because Cas9 often cuts unintended, off-target sites as well. Alterna...

 heat tolerance Solutions to climate change often bring to mind engineering or international policy. At HMS, however, one effort arose from an unexpected corner: genetics. “Climate change has been coming for a long time, now, and there are many in our department who feel we as geneticists have a responsibility to do something about it—work to slow, halt, or reverse it as well as prepare the living world for the consequences of it,” said Chao-Ting Wu, professor of genetics in the Blavatni...

By STEPHANIE DUTCHEN A flask of Synechococcus cyanobacteria above a device that stimulates growth. Image: Stephanie Dutchen In PhD student Max Schubert’s view, solving climate change requires two kinds of people: those who dream big and those who make the dreams happen. Some dreamers—including Schubert’s lab head, George Church, the Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School—envision reducing global warming by genetically t...

The Drinks Business 12 February 2021 By Alice Liang Prepare to bid farewell to the Year of the Rat and say hello to the Year of the Ox, which symbolises the virtue of hard work and endurance, and the fulfilment of dreams. If you’re keen to raise a glass today to mark the occasion then check out our round-up of limited edition Chinese New Year wine and spirits releases. Penfolds RWT Bin 798 Barossa Valley Shiraz 2018 Gift Box “Baby Grange” Bin 389 has been hailed as the...

Shiraz Uncorked: The Australian way January 22nd, 2021 Shiraz wine is an Australian institution. Since the mid-19 th Century, Australian growers have been honing their winemaking craft and turning Shiraz grapes into spectacular wine on a world stage. It’s an established fact that Australia produces some of the finest Shiraz wines in the world. As recently as 2019, Kellermeister’s Wild Witch 2015 Shiraz from the Barossa Valley took top honours at the London Wine Fair, and in 2020 d’Arenber...

A complete Penfolds Grange set has sold for a record $431,000 December 17th, 2020 A complete set of Penfolds Grange has just sold for $430,000 in the Langton’s Penfolds Rewards of Patience auction – a world record price. Christmas came early for a Sydney wine lover who successfully won the bidding war of the coveted set, which contains all vintages of Penfolds Grange from 1951 to 2015 (64 bottles in total). “This Penfolds set is unique because some of the bottles are signed by Max Schuber...