Vale Peter Lehmann, a member of the Order of Australia, the original Baron of the Barossa, and a legend of Australian wine, helped shape the wine industry over seven decades. Peter Lehmann established the Tanunda-based winery that bears his name in 1979, creating a wine brand that today signifies quality Barossa winemaking. Each vintage, over 140 grape growers supply Peter Lehmann Wines with quality fruit from over 700 hand-tended vineyards located throughout the Barossa.

Has retained exceptional deep crimson-purple colour; as the time perspective increases, so does the stature of the '12 vintage, and its longevity. Here an ocean of full-bodied black fruits has tides of tannins and quality oak all playing off and enhancing each other on the prodigiously long palate. Drink by: 2042; Price: $100.00; Date Tasted: Sep 2016; Alcohol: 14.5%; Rating: 97 Points & Special Value Star; James Halliday Wine Companion

Exceptional from start to finish. Still tarry and young, needing cellar time, but it's smokin' hot already. Stonewell selects its exceptional fruit from a sub-region of the western Barossa Valley, from vines that were planted in 1885, the oldest in the region. The 2012 vintage is a powerful one that has a long life ahead of it. Drink: 2017-2029; Alcohol: 14.5%; Rating: 97 Points; Natalie MacLean

An epic Stonewell, infused with monumental density of black plum and blackberry fruit, masterfully supported by dark chocolate oak. For all of its commanding volume, it is never broad nor heavy, pulled obediently into line by finely structured yet confidently enduring tannins of great definition. It culminates in a finish of astonishing line and length. Irresistible now, it will live confidently for two decades. Drink by: 2022-2032; Price: $100.00; Alcohol: 14.5%; Rating: 97 Points; Tyson Stelzer; Top 150 Wines of 2017