Max's Rosé

This Rosé pairs effortlessly with grilled salmon and vegetables.

Vintage 2021 was celebrated by grape growers and winemakers across South Australia both for its long cool ripening and a return to respectable yields. Despite a dry July, soil moisture levels were close to optimal as budburst commenced in spring. Warm conditions throughout September ensured even budburst across the Adelaide Hills, McLaren Vale and Padthaway, while healthy rainfall from late September through to November promoted ideal canopy development. Unlike the previous two seasons, conditions at flowering allowed for a good fruit set. The summer of the 2020/21 growing season was the coolest in the past ten years, with no heat waves and only nine days over 35°C. Several good rain periods in late January and early February ensured soil moisture levels were optimal for veraison. The final stages of ripening were slowed by cool conditions resulting in optimal flavour development. Harvest was an orderly affair with grapes from the South East still being harvested in early May.

Penfolds has been producing remarkable wines since 1844 and indisputably led the development of Australian fine wine in the modern era. The introduction of Penfolds Grange in 1951 forever changed the landscape of Australian fine wine. Since then a series of stand-out wines both white and red have been released under the Penfolds masthead. Peter Gago Penfolds Chief Winemaker and only the 4th custodian of Grange relishes the opportunity to bring Penfolds to the world stage and is an enthusiastic ambassador and natural educator. Penfolds came to the attention of the US market when 1990 Grange was Wine Spectator’s ‘Wine of the Year’. Since then Penfolds Grange has become one of the most collectable wines of the world and was honored to grace the front cover once again of Wine Spectator with declarations of Grange as Australia’s Icon.