The Winery Piggs Peake of Hunter Valley of Nouvelle-Galles du Sud

Winery Piggs Peake - Big Pig Shiraz
The winery offers 79 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.2.
It is ranked in the top 1 of the estates of Nouvelle-Galles du Sud.
It is located in Hunter Valley in the region of Nouvelle-Galles du Sud

The Winery Piggs Peake is one of the largest wineries in the world. It offers 79 wines for sale in of Hunter Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Piggs Peake wines

Looking for the best Winery Piggs Peake wines in Hunter Valley among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Piggs Peake wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Piggs Peake wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Piggs Peake

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Piggs Peake

How Winery Piggs Peake wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of borscht (russia), traditional tagine (morocco) or auvergne potée.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Piggs Peake

On the nose the red wine of Winery Piggs Peake. often reveals types of flavors of oak, non oak or spices and sometimes also flavors of red fruit, black fruit or earth. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Piggs Peake. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Piggs Peake

  • 1995With an average score of 4.50/5
  • 2012With an average score of 4.47/5
  • 2017With an average score of 4.36/5
  • 2019With an average score of 4.36/5
  • 2015With an average score of 4.35/5
  • 2016With an average score of 4.34/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Piggs Peake.

  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Grenache
  • Merlot
  • Zinfandel
  • Lagrein

Discovering the wine region of Hunter Valley

The Hunter Valley is unquestionably the best known and most highly prized wine region in NewSouthWales. Its most famous wine style is its distinctive Dry Semillon, while Shiraz, is also long-established. It is also regarded as a pioneer of Australian Chardonnay. Hunter Valley Semillon Semillon was first planted here in the 1830s.

Hunter Valley Semillons are renowned for their ability to improve with age. The better examples develop in bottle for more than 15 years. Classic examples are made simply from early picked fruit and bottled Young, with Alcohol levels between 10 and 12 percent. The wines start out with a fresh, grassy, citrus taste with tangy Acidity.

However they evolve into Golden wines with nutty, honeyed notes and a luscious mouthfeel. Though unoaked and not having undergone malolactic fermentation, they can be mistaken for oaky chardonnays, even by experienced tasters. The valley's relationship with Chardonnay is 100 years shorter, but no less significant. It was here that Australia's first Chardonnay was made – from vines planted by the Tyrrell winery of Pokolbin in 1968.

The top pink wines of Winery Piggs Peake

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Piggs Peake

How Winery Piggs Peake wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

Discover the grape variety: Marsanne

Marsanne is a white grape variety that originated in Montélimar in the Drôme, several centuries ago. Marsanne is also found in Cassis, Savoie, Languedoc-Roussillon and Saint-Péray in the Ardèche, where it produces remarkable sparkling wines. The warm, sunny climate of the Rhone Valley, Languedoc-Roussillon and Provence, as well as the dry, stony soil, are ideal conditions for its development. Its bunches are quite large and provide small, juicy berries that are sensitive to grey rot and strong winds. These two grape varieties complement each other perfectly: together they give light wines with little acidity, aromas of yellow fruit, white fruit and flowers with notes of honey and liquorice. This is for example what the appellations Saint-Péray, Hermitage, Crozes-Hermitage, Saint-Joseph, Côtes-du-Vallée du Rhône, Corbières, or Cassis express... which represent about 700 hectares.

The top white wines of Winery Piggs Peake

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Piggs Peake

How Winery Piggs Peake wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), spicy food or sweet desserts such as recipes of baked salmon mediterranean style, chicken curry and onions or birthday cake.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Piggs Peake

On the nose the white wine of Winery Piggs Peake. often reveals types of flavors of citrus fruit, tree fruit or microbio and sometimes also flavors of oak, earth or red fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Piggs Peake. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Piggs Peake

  • 2015With an average score of 4.40/5
  • 2019With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2016With an average score of 4.27/5
  • 2018With an average score of 4.15/5
  • 2020With an average score of 4.14/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.86/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Piggs Peake.

  • Chardonnay
  • Gewürztraminer
  • Verdelho
  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Vermentino
  • Grüner Veltliner

The word of the wine: Frank

Said of a wine that is open and delivers itself immediately, and whose clarity excludes any defect.

The top sparkling wines of Winery Piggs Peake

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Piggs Peake

How Winery Piggs Peake wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or vegetarian such as recipes of tuna brick (light), grilled lobster with tarragon cream sauce or nanie's diced ham quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of sparkling wines of Winery Piggs Peake

On the nose the sparkling wine of Winery Piggs Peake. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit, tropical fruit or citrus fruit.

The best vintages in the sparkling wines of Winery Piggs Peake

  • 1995With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2002With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2020With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.20/5

The grape varieties most used in the sparkling wines of Winery Piggs Peake.

  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Glera (Prosecco)

Discover the grape variety: Sangiovese

Originally from Italy, it is the famous Sangiovese of Tuscany producing the famous wines of Brunello de Montalcino and Chianti. This variety is registered in the Official Catalogue of Wine Grape Varieties, list A1. According to recent genetic analysis, it is the result of a natural cross between the almost unknown Calabrese di Montenuovo (mother) and Ciliegiolo (father).

The top sweet wines of Winery Piggs Peake

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Winery Piggs Peake

How Winery Piggs Peake wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or sweet desserts such as recipes of tuna provencal style, creamy risotto with scallops or apple pie.

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Winery Piggs Peake

  • 2018With an average score of 4.40/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.90/5

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Winery Piggs Peake.

  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Sémillon
  • Barbera
  • Pedro Ximenez
  • Zinfandel

The word of the wine: Confit

Said of red wines that offer a very ripe nose of red and black fruits reminiscent of jam. On the palate, these aromas are dominant, the wine is very fleshy and round, and leaves an impression of sweetness on the finish that weighs it down.

The top natural sweet wines of Winery Piggs Peake

Food and wine pairings with a natural sweet wine of Winery Piggs Peake

How Winery Piggs Peake wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

Discover the grape variety: Touriga franca

Most certainly Portuguese. It is said to be the result of a cross between the mourisco de semente and the touriga nacional, which should not be confused with it. It can be found in Australia, South Africa, the United States (California), etc. and is virtually unknown in France.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Piggs Peake

Planning a wine route in the of Hunter Valley? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Piggs Peake.

Discover the grape variety: Viognier

White Viognier is a grape variety that originated in France (Rhone Valley). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches, and grapes of small size. White Viognier can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhone Valley, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Savoie & Bugey, Provence & Corsica, Loire Valley, Beaujolais.

News about Winery Piggs Peake and wines from the region

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Old Vine Charter: Perth’s Swan Valley to preserve historic vines

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Old Vine Charter: Perth’s Swan Valley to preserve historic vines

Old vines from Western Australia’s Swan Valley will be protected in the soon-to-be launched Swan Valley Old Vine Charter (OVC). More than 20 wineries from this historic region, a 30-minute drive from the state capital of Perth, are participating. The programme will see grapevines from 35 to 125 years of age registered and preserved. Participating wineries include Talijancich Wines, Nikola Estate, John Kosovich Wines, Mandoon Estate and Sandalford Wines. While the vines are predominantly Shiraz, ...

The word of the wine: Frank

Said of a wine that is open and delivers itself immediately, and whose clarity excludes any defect.