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    WOLF BLASS WINES

    Dec 02, 2018 4 minutes
    NIGEL HOPKINS

    MAINTAINING THE LEGACY

    AFTER 31 years with Wolf Blass Wines, chief winemaker Chris Hatcher is almost as synonymous with the brand as its founder and now ambassador at large, Wolf Blass.

    But Hatcher, who joined the company as senior winemaker in December 1987 after stints at Orlando and Kaiser Stuhl in the Barossa Valley and the Simi Winery in California, insists he is simply the custodian of one of Australia’s most famous brands and the legacy left by its famous founder.

    Just as Peter Gago is the latest custodian of Max Schubert and his iconic Grange legacy at sister

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