Peter Lehmann (winemaker)

Peter Lehmann (born August 18, 1930 in Angaston , † June 28, 2013 in Adelaide ) was an Australian entrepreneur and winemaker .

Family and childhood

Peter Lehmann came from an immigrant family with Prussian roots. His father was a Lutheran pastor. He died when Peter Lehmann was 14 years old. At the age of 17, he decided to leave school to learn the winemaker's trade at the Yalumba winery.

Professional career

From 1947 on, Peter Lehmann worked for Yalumba for over ten years and became one of the leading winemakers in the Barossa Valley . At the beginning of the 1960s, he became the chief winemaker of Saltram, one of the most important and leading wineries of the time. In 1977 he gave up this position and founded the Masterton Barossa Vignerons winery together with his wife Margaret in South Australia's Barossa Valley . This was renamed Peter Lehmann Wines in 1986 and officially listed on August 5, 1993 as a stock corporation on the Australian stock exchange. In 2003 the winery was bought by the Hess Family Estates of the Swiss Donald M. Hess, but the management remained with the eldest son Doug in the Lehmann family.

In 2003, 2006 and 2008 Peter Lemann Wines was honored as the best producer in Australia at the International Wine & Spirit Competition (IWSC).

Over 50% of Peter Lehmann's wines are exported (mainly to the USA, Great Britain and New Zealand).

Web links

• Homepage of Peter Lehmann Weine