Interview with Dr Max Lake [transcript] Interviewer: Lindsay Francis

Max Lake was born in New York in 1924 and came to Australia when he was 3 months old. He lived in Sydney and went to Sydney Boys High School and Sydney University. He studied medicine and became a surgeon. He worked in Melbourne with Weary Dunlop, studied in Britain and returned to Sydney in 1954. He wrote "Hunter Wines" in 1964, "Classic Wines of Australia" in 1966 which sold over 100,000 copies. Talks about classic wines, judging wine from the 1960s, planting grapes at Lake Folly in the Hunter Valley in 1963, the development of Folly wines, judging wines in America for 15 years, writing 14 books and his favourite was "Hunter Winemakers", the art of wine tasting and the influence on public choice and wine's relationship with food

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