Peter Lehmann The Barossan Shiraz 2019
Peter Lehmann 巴羅桑設拉子是一款複雜而層次分明的葡萄酒，果香濃鬱且柔順。濃鬱的櫻桃和濃鬱的深色水果香氣與甜美的巧克力和摩卡咖啡的味道完美結合。一款濃鬱、豐富、酒體飽滿的葡萄酒，單寧細膩，餘韻柔和。
彼得·萊曼 (Peter Lehmann) 已經擁有 33 個年份的葡萄酒，他於 1979 年創辦了自己的酒莊，部分原因是為了緩解當時困擾巴羅莎 (Barossa) 的葡萄過剩問題。「我會把你們的葡萄變成葡萄酒，」他告訴絕望的種植者，其中許多是西里西亞血統的保守農民，他們將老藤視為他們遺產的一部分。“但只有賣掉酒後我才能付錢給你。” 他們感激地接受了。人們普遍認為，如果沒有這筆交易，巴羅莎將會失去大片老藤。危機過去了，這在很大程度上要歸功於彼得的精力和遠見，萊曼酒莊成為巴羅莎乃至澳洲的傑出酒莊之一。
儘管彼得於 2014 年去世，並在 10 年前將大部分業務賣給了唐納德·赫斯 (Donald Hess)，但如今酒莊裡的熱情依然存在。他把酒賣給了他的美國經銷商赫斯，因為他認識到有人與他有共同的理念，並且會確保該酒莊不會成為悉尼數字計算公司運營的企業投資組合中的一個“品牌”。他的遠見確保了彼得萊曼葡萄酒的品質從未動搖。
Peter Lehmann The Barossan Shiraz is a complex and layered wine with fruit intensity and suppleness. Lifted cherry and brooding dark fruit aromas combine seamlessly with sweet chocolate and mocha undertones. An intense, generous and full bodied wine with fine tannins and a soft, supple finish.
Peter Lehmann, with 33 vintages already ‘under his belt‘, 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.
Passion still exists in the winery today, despite the fact that Peter died in 2014 and sold most of the business to Donald Hess a decade ago. He sold to Hess, his American distributor, because he recognised someone who shared his philosophy and would ensure that the winery didn’t become a ‘brand’ in a corporate portfolio run by number crunchers in Sydney. His foresight ensured that the quality of the Peter Lehmann wines has never wavered.
