TOP 100 wines from 1970's

Penfolds Grange tops global challenge to find greatest wine of the 1970s

To have Australian wines not just compete, but top the list, is an incredibly proud moment for us. Peter Gago, Penfolds chief winemaker

Penfolds' legendary winemaker Max Schubert maintained the 1971 Grange was a standout vintage by Mark Hawthorne

It was the wine Max Schubert declared as his greatest triumph.Now, more than four decades later, the legenda...

The Wine of the decade is the Penfolds Grange 1971.

Tastingbook and FINE Wine magazines arranged the World's largest 1970's tasting at the end of August 2015. The jury included 20 winepros from nine countries and they tasted over 150 wines as blind in one weekend and some wines just before it. The quality of the wines were really good as only four wines were corked and just two were fakes(labels changed sometimes during their life).

The ...