Peter Lehmann 8 Songs Barossa Shiraz 2021

Matured for 18 months in 40% new French oak hogsheads. Just picked blackberries, top of the tree mulberries and boysenberry ripple ice cream. Blood plum, olive tapenade and rosemary. Budding and buoyant this is shockingly youthful into its 3 year life cycle. It’s certainly made with only the best grape selection and optimum barrels. The palate has it all blue, black and red berries with licks of cedar and tobacco that fall in line behind. Cinnamon quill, vanilla pod and a middle palate weight of rich cocoa. Generous in flavour but pulled in taut and terrific by its structural integrity. Tannins are silty and fine. A smart wine indeed to drink now although will cellar well for another 8-10 years. A wine for succulent lamb cutlets eaten off the bone.

Shanteh Wale

Contributor at Wine Companion

Shanteh cut her teeth at Sydney’s Award-Winning Quay restaurant where she worked for over a decade and was Head Sommelier from 2018 till 2022. She has been nominated for the Good Food Guide Sommelier of the Year award on three occasions and claims that her experience as a Len Evans scholar as one of the highlights of her career. Shanteh hosts her own weekly podcast ‘Over A Glass’ with the Deep in the Weeds Network and spends her time writing for various publications and judging at numerous wine shows across the country.

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