Eight Songs Shiraz Barossa Valley - Peter Lehmann

Eight Songs Shiraz Barossa Valley - Peter LehmannThe barrel-aged Eight Songs Shiraz Barossa Valley from the South Australia winegrowing region shows a dense crimson red in the glass. Holding the glass at a slight angle, a transition of the wine color towards garnet red can be seen at the edges of this barrel-aged wine. When swirling the wine glass, this red wine reveals a high density and richness, which is evident in church windows at the rim of the glass. In the glass, this red wine from Peter Lehmann presents aromas of blueberries, black currants, mulberries and blackberries, complemented by cinnamon, vanilla and black tea. On the palate, Peter Lehmann's Eight Songs Shiraz Barossa Valley starts wonderfully dry, grippy and aromatic. The finale of this well-maturing red wine from the wine-growing region of South Australia, more precisely from Barossa, finally impresses with considerable reverberation. The finish is also accompanied by mineral facets of the soils dominated by clay and sand. Vinification of the Eight Songs Shiraz Barossa Valley by Peter Lehmann This red wine clearly focuses on one grape variety, namely Shiraz. Only first-class grape material was used for this wonderfully powerful single-varietal wine from Peter Lehmann. In South Australia, the vines that produce the grapes for this wine grow on soils of clay, sand, volcanic rock and black earth. After the grapes are harvested, they are immediately taken to the press house. Here they are sorted and carefully broken up. Then fermentation takes place in small wood at controlled temperatures. At the end of fermentation, the Eight Songs Shiraz Barossa Valley is aged for 18 months in French oak barrels. Recommended food for the Eight Songs Shiraz Barossa Valley by Peter Lehmann Drink this red wine from Australia best tempered at 15 - 18°C as an accompanying wine to lemon chili chicken with bulgur, goose breast with ginger red cabbage and marjoram or leek tortilla.