Penfolds Winery

"One of Australia's most respected winemakers."

The birthplace and "spiritual home" of Penfolds Winery is the Magill Estate, just a few minutes from Adelaide. in 1845, the young doctor Dr Rawson Penfold planted vine cuttings that he had taken with him on his trip to Australia.

40 years later, Penfolds was producing a third of all the wine in South Australia. Even then, there was a lot of experimentation with "new" methods. Penfolds made it onto the global stage in the 1950s, particularly with long-lived Shiraz.

Its inventor, Chief Winemaker Max Schubert, was particularly inspired by travelling to Bordeaux and the Rhône. The result was the Penfolds "Grange", which was originally called "Grange Hermitage" - named after the most famous vineyard on the northern Rhône. The wine quickly became one of the most famous overseas wines in the world and 50 years after the first vintage, it was added to the South Australian Heritage List.

Penfolds has always produced wines in three categories: 1. single-vineyard or single-region wines, 2. multi-region blends, 3. cuvées from different grape varieties. The vineyards of Penfolds and its suppliers are mainly located in the best wine regions of South Australia.

The centrepiece is the Penfolds Magill Estate. There are plants in the Barossa Valley dating back to the 1880s. They are considered to be the oldest continuously producing Cabernet Sauvignon vines in the world. White wines are grown in the cooler Adelaide Hills. There are also areas in McLaren Vale in Coonawarra and in the Eden Valley, as well as in Tasmania, for example.