Peter Lehmann Futures Shiraz 2006

NOTES

The first wine we ever sold was called ‘The Futures Shiraz’ and the Lehmann’s sold it to their friends and family on a ‘pay now and we’ll deliver in two years’ arrangement. It certainly wasn’t some flash marketing gimmick – they didn’t even have a marketing department then. In all honesty, it was simply that we needed the cash when we started to ensure they did in fact have a future!

The 1980 Barossa Valley Futures Shiraz was a magnificent wine when it was first released and when we look back at all the Shiraz we have made over the past quarter century or more, that very first wine we made in 1980 still drinks remarkably well. That’s the incredible thing about Barossa Shiraz – you can enjoy it young when we release it from our cellars, but it’s also capable of extraordinary longevity.

TASTING NOTES

The wine has a black centre with a dark red rim and its bouquet offers an enticing melange of classical Barossa Shiraz dark plums and chocolate. The palate is opulent and rich with great length of flavour. It is superbly structured: the depth of velvet fruit being reined in by fine tannins and the beautifully integrated oak.

REVIEWS

Rich, generous blackberry and plum fruit is framed by integrated but positive French oak, the tannins in balance. Cork. 14.5% alc. Rating 92 James Halliday Australian Wine Companion 2010