Interview with Merv Lange [transcript] Interviewer: Rob Linn

Merv Lange was born in Perth 21 March 1941. His father bought land at Frankland in 1946, cleared it and started farming. This was split between the three brothers in 1971. Merv married Judy in 1965 and they planted grapes in 1970. He received advice from Bill Jamieson at the Agriculture Department in Western Australia. Locals were beginning to plant grapes. He made his first wine in 1975, went to the Melbourne Expo in 1981 to market the wine outside WA; built a winery in 1978; employed John Wade as the winemaker in 1986; Kym Hart was the winemaker 1988-1996 then Michael Staniford. Talks about the wine production methods; going to London in 1986 for the Wine Trade fair and getting an agent for the international market so that they now export to 14 countries

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