The winery story of Penfolds Winery

Penfolds Winery was founded by a young British doctor who immigrated from Britain to the most distant colony a century and a half ago. Dr. Christopher Rawson Penfold established the winery in 1811. Born, the youngest of 11 brothers, his father, John Penfolds, was the pastor of the Anglo Church in Sussex, southern England. He interned as a medical intern at St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London, where he met Dr. Henry John Lindeman, who was training at the same hospital at the time.

Dr. Penfolds married Mary Holt, the daughter of a doctor, in 1935. From 1838 to 1844, he practiced medicine in Brighton on the south coast of England. His father died in 1840 and his mother in 1843. The 33-year-old adventurous doctor Penfolds decided to immigrate to Australia with his young daughter Georgina, his wife, maid Ellen Timbrell, and some of his friends from Brighton. They landed on August 8, 1844, at Taglioni, a new colony in Australia that had been discovered eight years earlier.

Penfolds bought 500 acres in Magill at the foot of Mount Lofty, five miles away from Adelaide, where the early immigrants settled, for ￡1,200. (200 hectares) of land, 200 acres of which were already cultivated at that time, Magill was considered an ideal place to live. Like many doctors before and at that time, Dr. Penfolds had a deep belief in the medicinal value of wine. Before he left England, he obtained some grape branches from southern France, which he later planted around the stone house he built in 1845. The couple called the house the Grange to commemorate Mary's hometown in England.

Dr. Penfolds built his medical reputation on the fortified wines he brewed - Port and Sherry. As the demand for his wines increased, he expanded his grape varieties. garden and increase production. At that time, these wines even became the main income of the family. At the same time, Dr. Penfolds began to participate in local government affairs and became the first chairman of the local administrative bureau in 1856. But his declining health meant that Mary Penfolds and Ellen Timbers took over more of the vineyard management and winemaking duties. In 1861, during a family trip to Melbourne, her daughter Georgina met Thomas Francis Hylard, a senior government administrator. They got married in September of the following year, and Hylard began Marketing for Penfolds Wines in Victoria. Doctor Penfolds and the disease

After fighting for many years, he finally died in Magill in March 1870 at the age of 59. Penfolds' wine business was handed over to Thomas Kenan and the vineyard appointed in 1869. The business continued with the help of manager and winemaker Joseph Gillard. In 1880, Georgina and Thomas moved back to Melbourne, where Kenan successfully resumed his Penfolds sales business in Victoria. After 35 years of growth from a small beginning, records show that in 1881 Magill's storage capacity was close to half a million liters, which at the time was more than one-third of South Australia's total. At that time Magill's vineyard area had expanded to 50 hectares. After 40 years of growing grapes and blending wine, Mary Penfolds announced her retirement in 1884. She died on the last day of 1895 at the age of 79 and was buried with Mr. Penfolds in the St. George's Church Cemetery in Magill.

Georgina and Thomas Kennan had two sons and two daughters, all of whom worked in the company, two sons, Frank Astor Hyland (born 1873) and Herbert Lees Herbert Leslie Hyland (born 1878) also played an important role in the company, managing Penfolds until World War II. The descendants of this generation also changed the family name to Penfolds Hyland. Thomas continued to manage Victoria's marketing operations, eventually retiring in 1914. Frank then focused on developing business in the neighboring province of New South Wales, while Leesley expanded business in South Australia.

In 1901, Frankfurt Kennan established an office in Sydney, the capital of New South Wales. In the same year, the divided colonial areas of Australia formed the Commonwealth of Nations. In 1904, Frank bought a vast vineyard in Dalwood, a region north of Sydney in the Hunter Valley.

In 1912, Franz led the company to produce sparkling wine after acquiring the Minchinbury winery and vineyard in Rooty Hill, a western suburb of Sydney.

(Winemaking continued until 1978. At its peak point that year, the garden exceeded 160 hectares, and was slowly swallowed up by the expansion of the city of Sydney.) At that time, Lesley Penfolds Kenan was in McLaren, south of Adelaide. A wine cellar was built in McLaren Vale and a new winery was built in Nuriootpa in Barossa Valley in 1910. During this period, especially in the Barossa area, the garden area expanded significantly.

After the First World War, the military camp in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation District (Murrumbidgee) in southern New South Wales was opened as a grape growing area. Penfolds sponsored the opening by supplying vines and guaranteeing the purchase of grapes, and the winery was built at Griffith in time for the 1921 vintage.

At the same time, it expanded in the Hunter Valley. In 1942, it purchased the famous HVD (Hunter Valley Distillery) vineyard, and in 1943, it purchased the Auldana wine in Magill, South Australia. factory and its vineyards. In 1944, he purchased the Modbury vineyard in northern Adelaide, and the Kalimna vineyard in the Barossa Valley was also successfully acquired in 1945.

Liszt Penfolds Kennan passed away in 1940, and his brother Frank also passed away in 1948. Francis, the eldest son of Leesley, known as "Bill", joined the winery in 1926. Unfortunately, he died of a heart attack in 1946 when he was the manager of South Australia. In the same year, Leesley's second son, Jeffery, After joining the army, he joined Penfolds in South Australia. In 1948, he was promoted to chairman and took full control of the company. Penfolds continued to expand during this period, increasing the capacity of its Noor Oba and Griffey wineries and purchasing land in the Barossa and Hunter Valley. The fortunes of the Australian wine industry during this period still relied on fortified wines such as sherry and port. Chevalier Penfolds Kenan changed the direction of Penfolds and increased the production of table wine, but after the war it still only accounted for 3% of the total production.

Penfolds chief winemaker, Max Schubert, was just a teenage messenger when he joined Penfolds in the early 1930s and was ordered to lead the implementation of policies. In 1951, the following year after returning from a visit to Europe, Stout produced his first vintage of experimental Grange Hermitage red wine in Magill, brewed from the Shiraz variety and blended with the finest, longest-lived wines. The Bordeaux variety Cabernet Sauvignon.

More than forty years later, Grange wine is still Australia's most famous wine, the leader in the industry and has established an image of excellent quality for Australian wines internationally. In the 1960s, Schubert and his winemakers also developed a series of "family" wines that have since occupied a place in all levels of the red wine market, such as Bin707 Cabernet Sauvignon (Bin707 Cabernet Sauvignon, Cellar No. 389 Cal. Bin 389 Cabernet Shiraz, Bin 28 Kalimna Shiraz, Bin 128 Coonawarra Shiraz, Bin 2 Mourvedre Shiraz-Mataro (Bin 2 Shiraz-Mataro (Mourvedre)) and Koonunga Hill Shiraz Cabernet (Koonunga Hill Shiraz Cabernet), which were only brewed in 1976.

In order to further expand in 1962. After preparing funds, Penfolds Wine was listed on the Sydney Stock Market, and the Penfolds Kenan family still held 51% of the shares. Penfolds immediately purchased more vineyards in New South Wales and South Australia, and replanted old vineyards. Started operating in New Zealand and acquired a hotel chain. However, the expansion plan was too ambitious and weakened the company's finances. In 1976, Tooth & Co, a Sydney brewer, successfully took over the control of the Penfolds family at a high price. In 1980, it was acquired by Adelaide Steamship Company.

After Penfolds sobered up, it sold all the wineries and vineyards in South Wales and concentrated its main efforts on its birthplace. ─ South Australia. Today's Penfolds winemaking center is the Nuriootpa winery in the Barossa and a small winery was built in Magill at the beginning of this century. Penfolds is best grown in South Australia. Areas such as: Barossa Vale, Clare Valley, Eden Valley, Adelaide, McLaren Vale and Coonwarra have about 500 hectares (1200 acres) of vineyards.

He also purchases grapes from grape growers in Langhome Creek, Padthaway and the Adelaide Hills.

Today's Penfolds is famous for its use of grape blending techniques from different regions to produce a series of red grapes, white wines and fortified wines, all of which can maintain their outstanding styles year after year. As for its red wines, Penfolds is quite famous for its aging technology in oak barrels, especially the use of American oak paired with Schiff varieties.

Magill has now become part of the city of Adelaide and its suburbs. The original five-hectare "home" vineyard still exists, surrounding the stone farmhouse built by Dr. Penfolds and his wife in 1845. . Penfolds is definitely the most famous wine in Australia. Grange is named after the stone house where the Shihe of Magill Vineyard was planted. Its wines, stone houses and vineyards are closely tied to the history of one of Australia's greatest wine companies. Today, Penfolds is world-famous for its red and white wines. The company produces more than one million cases of high-end wines every year, with markets throughout Europe, the United States, Canada, Northern Europe and Asia.

In Australia Penfolds is a leading winery in the wine industry, an innovator with a fine winemaking tradition. Penfolds' enviable reputation has been established by the investment and implementation of high-quality wines over the past 150 years