Grange book for ACT collectors

If you think $785 is a lot to spend on a bottle of wine, how would you feel about that outlay on a book about the wine? Hard to judge, not ever having spent anything near that on wine or reading material, and not having seen the book.

I have drunk Grange, and I’m with those who point out that once you get above $60 or so, the quality-for-money equation changes drastically. Is Grange really 10 times better than a brilliant $60 wine? Philip White, Adelaide wine writer and friend of Grange creator Max Schubert, has produced a collector’s book, A Year in the Life of Grange, which celebrates Australia’s greatest wine.

The basic edition, with 1000 copies made, is $785. The winemaker’s edition, 250 copies, with an imitation leather cover and a print of the winemakers on archival paper and ready to frame, is $1000.

The collector’s edition, just 100 made, leather-bound with a kangaroo-hide spine and in an archive box with a folio of photographs from the book, is an astonishing $4000. See wordley.com.au/grange.