Winery Piggs Peake - Wolfie

Winery Piggs PeakeWolfie

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(Average of the reviews for all vintages combined and from several consumer review sources)
Tasters consider this wine to be one of the best in the region.
The Wolfie of Winery Piggs Peake is a red wine from the region of Hunter Valley of Nouvelle-Galles du Sud.
This wine generally goes well with beef, lamb or goat cheese.
The Wolfie of the Winery Piggs Peake is in the top 10 of wines of Hunter Valley.

Wine flavors and olphactive analysis

On the nose the Wolfie of Winery Piggs Peake in the region of Nouvelle-Galles du Sud often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of spices, red fruit or black fruit.

Details and technical informations about Winery Piggs Peake's Wolfie.

Grape varieties
Region/Great wine region
Great wine region
Country
Style of wine
Allergens
Contains sulfites

Discover the grape variety: Zinfandel

From Croatia where it is called crljenak kastelanski or pribidrag. According to genetic analyses carried out by Professor Carole Meredith of California University in Davis (United States), it is related to the Croatian plavac mali and Zinfandel. It is also found in South Africa, New Zealand, Chile, Brazil, Germany, Bulgaria, Albania, Italy under the name of Primitivo, Malta, Greece, Portugal and to some extent in Croatia. In the United States (California), it is one of the most widely planted grape varieties, having been introduced in the 1830s well before Primitivo. In France, it is registered in the official catalogue of vine varieties on the A1 list under the name Primitivo.

Last vintages of this wine

Wolfie - 2017
In the top 10 of of Hunter Valley wines
Average rating: 4.411110
Wolfie - 2016
In the top 10 of of Hunter Valley wines
Average rating: 4.311110
Wolfie - 2015
In the top 10 of of Hunter Valley wines
Average rating: 4.311110
Wolfie - 2014
In the top 10 of of Hunter Valley wines
Average rating: 4.111110
Wolfie - 2013
In the top 10 of of Hunter Valley wines
Average rating: 4.211110
Wolfie - 2012
In the top 10 of of Hunter Valley wines
Average rating: 4.411110
Wolfie - 2007
In the top 10 of of Hunter Valley wines
Average rating: 411110

The best vintages of Wolfie from Winery Piggs Peake are 2017, 2012, 2016, 2015 and 2013.

Informations about the Winery Piggs Peake

The winery offers 79 different wines.
Its wines get an average rating of 4.2.
It is in the top 5 of the best estates in the region
It is located in Hunter Valley in the region of Nouvelle-Galles du Sud

The Winery Piggs Peake is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 75 wines for sale in the of Hunter Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top wine Nouvelle-Galles du Sud
In the top 250 of of Australia wines
In the top 15 of of Hunter Valley wines
In the top 6500 of red wines
In the top 8000 wines of the world

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.


The wine region of Nouvelle-Galles du Sud

The NewSouthWales wine appellation is made up of 16 different regions and covers approximately 810,000 square kilometres (312,000 square miles). This is the Size of the state of New South Wales, one of the six that make up the federal Commonwealth of Australia. Although it is one of the smallest Australian states geographically, it has been the most populous since the first European settlements in the 18th century. The South East Australia GI area is the largest in Australia and can include any wine produced in New South Wales as well as Victoria, Tasmania and Parts of South Australia.

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The word of the wine: Reduction

A physiological and chemical phenomenon that occurs in wine in the absence of oxygen. The smell of reduction is characterized by animal and sometimes fetid notes that disappear in principle with aeration. It is recommended to decant reduced wines.

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