Peter Lehmann Black Queen Barossa Valley Sparkling Shiraz 2018
Peter Lehmann Black Queen Barossa Valley Sparkling Shiraz
Region: Barossa Valley, South Australia, Australia
Vintage: 2018
Bottle size: 75cl
Grape: Shiraz
ABV: 14%
Notes: Vegetarian
Bright and deep crimson red, the aroma is abundant in juicy red fruits and Christmas cake with a subtle toasted oak lift. With naturally supple and silky tannins, the wine is soft and abundant in rich dark blue fruits with a lovely trifle and strawberries and cream character. Gentle beading and a delicate, soft mousse makes the palate luscious and seductive. A brooding, savoury dark chocolate backbone of flavour balanced with sweet perfumed oak notes leads to a great length of blackberry and plum conserve. The fruit sweetness is apparent, but balanced by the complexity of fruit-weight and time spent on lees prior to disgorgement.
Peter Lehmann Wines works with over 140 growers across the length and breadth of the Barossa Valley region, with access to over 750 individual vineyard sites. The Black Queen is sourced from the premium Gulgunya Shiraz vineyard, planted in the Moppa District at the northern end of the Barossa Valley floor. Soils are deep sands over clay and loam. Roots are embedded deep in the Moppa soils in search of underground water streams.
Peter Lehmann started his own winery in 1979, partly as a means of helping with the glut of grapes then afflicting the Barossa. “I’ll take your grapes and turn them into wine,” he told the desperate growers, many of them conservative farmers of Silesian descent who regarded their old vines as part of their patrimony. “But I’ll only be able to pay you when I sell the wine.” They gratefully accepted. Without this deal, it is widely thought that the Barossa would have lost a large swathe of its old vines. The crisis passed, in large part thanks to Peter’s energy and vision, and the Lehmann winery became one of the Barossa’s – and Australia’s – outstanding wineries. It was for his role as saviour of the Barossa and as the creator of this winery, that Peter was named ‘Personality of the Year’ by the International Wine Challenge in 2009.
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