Max Schubert Quotes
Below is a selection of quotes, sayings and comments by the Australian winemaker and innovator Max Schubert.

• It's so essential that a winemaker give some of his personality to his wine. His personality is part and parcel of the wine itself. The greatest wines have implanted in them the ideas of the winemaker as to what they should be. His character is part of the wine.
  Max Schubert Quote on winemaking - Winemaking, Wine, Great, Ideas, Important, Creating
• Grange's aging curve is long and graceful. It loses its baby fat, firms up and fleshes out at about eight to ten years, then remains at a plateau of richness for another five to 15 years.
  Max Schubert Quote on aging Grange wines - Grange, Shiraz, Aged Wine, Mature
  
• We must not be afraid to put into effect the strength of our own convictions, continue to use our imagination in wine-making generally, and be prepared to experiment in order to gain something extra, different and unique in the world of wine.
  Max Schubert Quote about making wine - Winemaking, Afraid, Strong, Imagination, Wine, Experimental, Unique
  
• Grange Hermitage has been argued and debated around countless dinner tables. In its early years it was insulted and classified among the lowest of the low.. yet, through all this it has stood out as an individual wine with its own particular personality and has been consumed in copious quantity whether it be with praise and pleasure, or with dislike and condemnation.
  Max Schubert Quote from 1979 on Penfolds Grange - Grange, Wine, Criticism, Unique, Drinking Wine, Praise, Dislike, Pleasure, Shiraz
• All winemakers should possess a good fertile imagination if they are to be successful in their craft.
  Max Schubert on winemaking - Winemaking, Imagination, Success
  
• As the earlier vintages matured in bottle and progressively became less aggressive and more refined, people generally began to take notice, and whereas previously it had been all condemnation, I was now at least receiving some praise for the wine.
  Max Schubert Quote on the early days of Grange - Winemaking, Grange, Aged Wine, Vintage, Mature, Bottle, Praise, Dislike, Wine, Shiraz
• Grange Hermitage has always been a controversial and an individual wine. It is my belief that if these two characteristics can be combined, then at least half the ingredients necessary for success have been achieved.
  Max Schubert Quote on the qualities needed for a good wine - Winemaking, Grange, Unique, Controversy, Success, Belief, Shiraz
• Few wines made anywhere in the world can match the consistent quality of Grange. Any unabridged tasting of Bordeaux, Burgundy or California Cabernet will have its share of bad vintages. However, because Penfolds Grange Hermitage is a blend from several different vineyards it has achieved a level of outstanding quality consistently over each vintage.
  Max Schubert Quote on the quality of Penfolds Grange - Winemaking, Grange, Shiraz, French, Vintage, Californian, Vineyards, Quality, Blending, Tasting
  
• I was fortunate to be taken under the wing of Monsieur Christian Cruse, one of the most respected and highly qualified wine men of the old school of France at that time, and he afforded me, among other things, the rare opportunity of tasting and evaluating Bordeaux wines between forty and fifty years old which were still sound and possessed magnificent bouquet and flavor.
  Max Schubert Quote on how he learned the art of wine making - Winemaking, Aged Wine, French, Mature, Tasting, Flavor

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