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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 the first vintage of Penfolds Grange ever made, and went under the hammer at the Langton’s Penfolds ...

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 July, for AUD$122,001. This bottle of ’51 Grange was recorked and signed by renowned winemaker Max Sc...

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 than 20 years in fine wine. We expect it to go under the hammer for around $120,000* if it sells,” s...

After cheating cancer, the acclaimed wordsmith was on hand to celebrate the launch of a new biography.

 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. Alternative gene editing techniques called recombineering instead perform this bait-and-switch by introduci...