Tasting Notes for Peter Lehmann Chardonnay 2005

White Wines	Chardonnay	Barossa Valley	Australia

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Date Printed: 5/25/2012

Peter Lehmann Chardonnay 2005

(search item no. 88027)

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Australian Wine Companion rating: 88 points
PRICE ON 5/25/2012: $9.29

ratings pedigree (past vintages):
2009 Australian Wine Companion rating: 88 points
2009 Wine Spectator rating: 87 points
2006 Wine Enthusiast rating: 88 points

Winemaker's Notes:

The Peter Lehmann chardonnay philosophy is very much about making a delicate, soft refreshing style of wine with accent on the primary fruit flavours.

Colour: A delicate yellow with green tinges at the rim.

Bouquet: Soft and restrained on the nose showing good fruit with background notes of new oak, and wild yeast lees complexity.

Palate: A very restrained and stylish Chardonnay making for a very refreshing sip. It has delicious freshly cut white peach and smoky fig fruit on the palate and finishes soft and clean.

Cellaring: Excellent to sip now, and with careful cellaring will continue to develop in the bottle for a further four to five years.

My Notes:

Additional wines from Peter Lehmann:

2006 Eight Songs Shiraz (search item no. 112065)
2008 Shiraz (search item no. 102693)
2009 Cabernet Sauvignon (search item no. 115709)
2009 Chardonnay (search item no. 107244)
2009 Eden Valley Riesling (search item no. 104916)
2009 Layers Red (search item no. 112150)

About Peter Lehmann:

Peter Lehmann Wines is one of Australia's most respected and innovative winemakers, creating wines that delight wine lovers around the globe. The care and consideration which Peter Lehmann Wines brings to the selection of grapes enable the winery to produce its wide range of distinctive, award-winning and internationally acclaimed wines. Peter Lehmann Wines are created from grapes purchased from about 185 carefully selected independent growers as well as grapes grown in the four company-owned vineyards. Many of their growers’ families have worked the same vineyards for five and, in some cases, six generations.

The wide range of soils and micro-climates produce a wealth of grape styles, providing winemakers with the luxury of being able to select from the known vineyard flavor profile, the grapes which will create the style they are seeking. It is significant that the majority of the vineyards from which Peter Lehmann sources fruit are classified as mature, ranging in ages from 20 to over 100 years old. Many are ungrafted and dry grown. It is quite incredible – but true – that Peter Lehmann Wines is able to source its Shiraz fruit from around 220 individual Shiraz vineyards throughout the Barossa, enabling their winemakers to craft different expressions of Shiraz for their wines.