Wine-Searcher’s Wine Director, David Allen MW, has been reviewing the wines of one of Australia’s oldest wine brands, Orlando. This a famous old company had been pretty much subsumed into the Jacob’s Creek label, however former owners Pernod Ricard had been working since 2020 to re-establish the brand and its range of premium wines, such as the Jacaranda Ridge Cabernet Sauvignon. Here David tastes the 2016 Orlando Jacaranda Ridge Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon.
Orlando was established as Gramp & Sons in 1847 when Bavarian immigrant Johann Gramp planted vines along the banks of Jacob’s Creek at Rowland Flatt in the southern Barossa Valley. The first wines were made in 1850 under the Orlando Wines title.
The family kept control of the winery until 1971 when it sold to international buyers – Reckitt & Colman. The company launched its successful Jacob’s Creek brand in 1976. Until earlier this year the brand was owned and managed by global drinks company Pernod Ricard, who sold it along with other Australian, New Zealand and Spanish brands to Accolade.
To find out more details about this wine, its price and where to buy it, follow this link to the Wine-Searcher website: https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/orlando+jacaranda+ridge+cab+sauv+coona+warra+south+australia/2016
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Hi David, Jacobs Creek was a fantastic wine in the 90s and I’d go as far as to say that it brought a lot of wine drinking into bars and homes back then. Unfortunately the quality went down with its popularity and it seemed to disappear from our shelves. I visited the winery about 96 and was unimpressed with their up market efforts. I’m disappointed with Oz wine at the moment after a visit there last year. The very cheap wines and the very expensive are good but the middle range ones I tasted lacked any definitive fruit or style. Hopefully this might be a return to sanity. I exclude WA from this general drubbing as they seem to be on the ball.