IT takes a very special sort of winemaker to buy, sell and buy back three times the winery at which he first made his reputation – along the way losing the right to use his own brand name, but still maintaining a larger-than-life name and reputation along the way.
It makes Grant Burge sound almost like the Kerry Packer of the wine industry, though there are far too many Packer characteristics that don’t fit either the Burge character or his career.
It has, nonetheless, been an extraordinary roller coaster ride for this fifth-generation winemaker that started when he teamed up with Ian Wilson to
