Max schubert biography
Max schubert biography
Obituary: Max Schubert - The Independent!
Max Schubert
Australian wine maker
Max Edmund Schubert AM | |
|---|---|
Max Schubert AM | |
| Born | ()9 February Moculta, South Australia |
| Died | 6 March () (aged&#;79) Adelaide, South Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Occupation | Winemaker |
| Years&#;active | – |
| Known&#;for | Creator of Penfolds Grange Hermitage |
Max SchubertAM (9 February – 6 March ) was a pioneering Australianwinemaker, with Penfolds, who is best known as the creator of Grange Hermitage.[1] Schubert was included in the Sydney Morning Herald's most influential Australians of the century, which was published in [2]
Life and career
Schubert was born to Lutheran parents in a German community on the fringes of the Barossa Valley, South Australia, a region renowned for its winemaking.
He joined Penfolds in as a messenger boy and became Penfolds' first chief winemaker in at the age of 33, a position he held until Schubert spent his entire working life with Penfolds. He was de