Saturday, June 5, 2010

PETER LEHMANN MARGARET SEMILLON 2004

- Barossa Valley, SA
- $28-$36
- Screwcap
- 11.5%alc

Since switching names from Reserve to Margaret, Peter Lehmann's achieved consistently spectacular results with their flagship Barossa semillon (2002-95pts, 2003-96pts). Has the Barossa's champion finally cracked the Hunter's code?

Mid/light-gold in colour, Peter Lehmann's 2004 Margaret is brightly layered with honeyed, waxy aromas of lanolin and lemon teacake backed by a faint nuttiness and even fainter notes of melon and freshly cut garden herbs. It enters the palate with smooth, rubbery texture, delivering a deeply complex array of buoyant, maturing semillon characters which sit slightly more on the mature side than the youthful. A simultaneously gentle and expressive extract of limey acids coat its lemon curd and beeswax flavours, allowing the wine to finish long, clean, savoury and briney, with a lingering richness of flavour.

ü+ In my opinion the richly flavoured and complex 2004 is maturing a fraction quicker than the previous two Margarets, but let's not forget; this exceptional dry white is Barossa semillon people! Drink to 2015.
94 points


3 comments:

  1. Too true Andrew. Particularly encouraging is how well the wine has been received in Sydney. In a sense, it's kind of like Australia going to Brazil and beating them at soccer... ;-)

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  2. We are a multicultural lot us Sydney people :)

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