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Rosemount, previously Rosemount Estate Wines, [1] is an Australian winery based in the Hunter Valley and South Australia, owned by Treasury Wine Estates. [2] At the turn of the 21st century, Rosemount was the second-best selling Australian wine brand in the United States.
Wine shelf. The Australian wine industry is one of the world's largest exporters of wine, with approximately 800 million out of the 1.2 to 1.3 billion litres produced annually exported to overseas markets. [1] The wine industry is a significant contributor to the Australian economy through production, employment, export, and tourism.
Its popular brands there include: Hardys, the number one Australian wine brand in the UK and a significant wine brand in mainland Europe, Kumala, the UK's number one South African wine brand, [18] Echo Falls, the third largest wine brand in the UK, Stowells, the number one wine brand in the UK on-premises trade,
The company sells wine and beer under several brand names, [2] and since 2021 it also sells whisky under the Morris of Rutherglen brand. [12] In 2023 the company lists these as brands: Yellow Tail, Peter Lehmann Wines, The Magic Box Wine Collection, Brand's Laira of Coonawarra, Morris of Rutherglen, Baileys of Glenrowan, and Atmata. [13]
Yellow Tail was developed for the Casella family winery to enter into the bottled wine market—having previously supplied bulk wine to other wineries. [3] The Yellow Tail brand was developed in 2000 and was originally produced for the export market. It became the number one imported wine to the United States in 2011. [3] [4]
The first vintage of Penfolds Grange was made on an experimental basis in 1951 by Penfolds winemaker Max Schubert and were largely given away at the time. [2] Having toured Europe in 1950, Schubert implemented wine-making techniques observed in Bordeaux upon his return, aiming to create a red wine able to rival the finest Bordeaux wines both in terms of quality and ageing potential.
Langton's Classification of Australian Wine is a listing of fine Australian wines compiled by wine-specialist auction house and online merchant Langton's. The Classification is a ranking of the best-performing Australian wines based on secondary market support over a minimum of 10 vintages. It was first published in 1991.
In 2016, Penfolds was named the Most Admired Wine Brand by Drinks International. [24] Penfolds Grange was classified as a First Growth in Liv-ev's 2017 recreation of the Bordeaux 1855 classification. [25] The only Australian winery to receive a perfect score from both Wine Spectator and Wine Advocate for the same vintage (Grange 2008). [24]