Aussie wines from Barossa Valley

Wines from a new Australian wine house, Peter Lehmann, are now available in Malta from Attard and Co.

Peter Lehmann wines come from the Tanunda area in the Barossa Valley, Australia's richest and best known viticultural and wine-making region, located in the ranges north of the city of Adelaide in the state of South Australia.

Australian High Commissioner Iain Dickie, George Pace, the Australian trade commission representative in Malta, and high commission PRO Dorothy Crane recently sampled a selection of the wines at the company.

"The Barossa was settled in the 1840s by German and English pioneers who planted vines then, and subsequently, the area remains the repository of some of the world's oldest Shiraz vineyards. Today, some of the Barossa vignerons are the fifth and sixth generation custodians of these old dry grown vines," Mr Dickie said.