Max Schubert looking at a bottle of Grange

70 years of Penfolds Grange – An Australian Icon

Anne Krebiehl MW, 09.12.2021

Penfolds Grange is one of Australia's most iconic and emblematic wines. Max Schubert created the first wine in 1951 and to celebrate its 70 years, Falstaff was invited to taste five decades of wines.

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The voice of Penfold’s late and legendary winemaker Max Schubert, remembering how he started at the Australian wine estate “as a fetch and carry boy” in 1931 when he was just 16 years old, set the scene. By 1948 he had become chief winemaker. A recording of his voice was played to set the scene for the anniversary tastings – held in the wine cellars of Waddesdon Manor, England.

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