Pioneer of Australian viticulture
Since the first vintage, the „Grange“ has been the benchmark for wine quality from Down Under. In the middle of the 19th century, the young physician Dr. Christopher Rawson Penfold England heading to Australia. His equipment also included vines because he believed in the health benefits of red wine for his patients. He planted the first vines in 1844 in Magill near Adelaide. His wines were port-style: rich, heavy and sweet. They were soon in great demand – as early as 1881 the cultivated area was 50 hectares.

 Penfold’s rise to the international top
A good hundred years later, the winery was over 80 hectares in size and had grown from a family business to a company. Max Schubert, the most creative and visionary cellar master in the southern hemisphere at the time, was to give the entire Australian viticulture a new face. At the beginning of the 1950s he traveled through Europe, where he was most fascinated by the red wines of the Rhône and Bordeaux. From this tour he brought with him the vision of pressing wines in Australia that are on a par with great European wines in terms of complexity and longevity. He went on to create the wines that would make Penfolds famous around the world. The Grange and the BIN series proved that it is possible to produce top-quality wines on Australian terroir.

Penfolds convinces in every price range
Today, Penfolds is one of the engines of Australian wine production and a pioneer in terms of quality and development of its own style. Penfold’s wines combine the immense richness of the hot climate with the longevity of European wines. The offer ranges from icons of the wine world such as the Grange to excellent everyday wines. The journalist Michael Franz writes: »I don’t know. that there is a second wine producer in the world that produces such delicious wines at affordable prices. Penfolds is so good you can buy any bottle in the portfolio and you’re sure to hit it.«

Australia’s legendary red wine: Penfolds Grange
After his return from Europe in 1951, Max Schubert experimented with the lowest yields and gentle aging methods in order to create a wine that was as complex and viable as a European plant. But only the 1955 vintage should bring the breakthrough. „A famous wine, a turning point,“ writes Michael Broadbent of the 1955 Grange. In 1962 he was employed at the Sydney Wine Show where he received his first gold medal. More than 170 were to follow – an unprecedented success story. Since then, the Grange has been considered the first and „only true Grand Cru of the southern hemisphere“ (Hugh Johnson)