Grange turns 70 at Waddesdon…
The story is familiar to most of us: messenger-boy-turned winemaker Max Schubert came back from Bordeaux in 1950, all fired up to make a complex fine wine that could age, like bordeaux. The first vintage of Grange was 1951. We know the legend that when the experts tasted it, they were so bewildered by the wine that they ordered him to stop making it, but that he made it in secret for three years until people began to realise that it was, indeed, a pretty fine wine. Thus began the trajectory of what is described...