Max Schubert's The Story of Grange The following story is taken from a paper delivered by Max Schubert A.M. at the first Australian National University Wine Symposium held in Canberra Australia in September...
During the months that followed, treatment was confined to the removal of lees from all containers including the control cask and the addition of small amounts of tannic acid. After twelve months, both wines...
1989 A full-bodied, youthful, smoky, overripe cassis-scented wine with massive body, and copious quantities of smoky, vanillin-scented new oak, this moderately tannic, juicy, opulent, muscular Grange requires...
2001 Deep purple. A very attractive wine with dark chocolate/plummy/sandalwood aromas and sweet malty oak. The palate is rich and fleshy with plenty of fruit richness and dark chocolate/liquorice flavours. The...
Australia's red grapes are amongst its greatest assets: after all, who could imagine a world without classic Australian Shiraz? Australia is blessed with abundant sunshine which enables our grapes to ripen to...
Wine Cellaring When cellared correctly, red wine will develop and improve in the bottle for the short, medium, or long term, depending on the style of the wine and the quality of the particular vintage. The...
So what is it about Grange, why is it so special? The first thing to consider is reputation, based on track record. Grange has been produced every year since 1951. Good bottles from the 1950s and 60s are still...
In 1788 Captain Arthur Phillip alighted at Sydney Cove importing Australia's first grape vines from Brazil and the Cape of Good Hope. This tentative start was the birth of a thriving viticultural industry that...