As Penfolds celebrates its 180th anniversary, we look back at the personalities and events that shaped Australia’s most celebrated fine wine producer through its long and distinguished history.
Penfolds has a long history of white winemaking dating back to the 1800s. Co-founder Mary Penfold won a trophy for her pioneering whites wines in 1890. The engraving on the trophy reads “White Wine of Light Character” “Mary Penfold & Co.” Today, Penfolds White Winemaker, Kym Schroeter, continues this award-winning white wine legacy. Mary Penfold’s desk. In the heart of the Adelaide Hills, the entrance to the Penfolds Magill Estate winery in 1920, 76 years after Dr Christopher and Mary Penfold arrived in Australia from the UK with a vine cutting and a bold vision. Herbert Leslie Penfold-Hyland was the grandson of Penfolds founder, Dr. Christopher Penfold, and was known to be a keen golfer and a car enthusiast. This advertisement from the 1930’s is thought to be his brainchild and was used during Penfolds Royal Easter Shows in New South Wales. One of the most important figures in the history of Penfolds is Max Schubert, Penfolds first Chief Winemaker and the creator of Grange. Schubert’s importance to the Australian wine industry was cemented when he was included in the Sydney Morning Herald‘s 100 most influential Australians of the century, published in 2001. The Penfolds team during classification in the late 1950s with Max Schubert (centre) and to his right, Jeffrey Penfold Hyland, Magill Estate’s Assistant General Manager who was instrumental in helping Max and
This Article was originally published on World of Fine Wine
