Peter Lehmann, Stonewell Shiraz Size:6x750ml textured and layered

textured and layered

fat and concentrated

(from 8 different lieux-dits that total a whopping 5 ha)

in the (rightly named) Unico method (72 months’ oak)

This is almost always the best 1er in the range and so it is again in 2017 with its restrained and ultra-fresh nose of citrus

Peter Lehmann, Stonewell Shiraz Size:6x750ml textured and layeredPeter Lehmann famously championed old vine Barossa Shiraz in the 1980s when growers were paid to grub it up. Created in 1987, this classic barrel fermented 'best of the best' Shiraz comes from a dozen or so top vineyards, the oldest planted in 1885. Exuberant toasty, mocha oak (mostly French, with 10% American) and blueberry and black olive fruit make for a plush, perfumed wine, with a long chassis of fine grained tannins.