IT WAS May 1978 when, with an 80c cover price, the first Winestate magazine hit the news stands. It doesn’t seem all that long ago really, but maybe that’s because I’m a person of a certain age! But it was after reading an interview with Penfolds’ famous winemaker Max Schubert featured in one of those first Winestate’s that I realised just how much wine can flow under the bridge in four decades.
During that interview Max was asked whether he thought the high prices being asked for Grange Hermitage (as it was called
