A wine that still has significant potential upside given time. Lovely now but will be much better in a decade or two from now.
Still very tightly wound and needed time to open up so it is a wine that should be decanted at the moment. Lemon, citrus and stone fruits wrapped up high acidity which provided lovely freshness and raciness. Went very well with sushi and sashimi.
Drink ideally in 10+ years.
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Popped and poured. Subtle nose of white flowers and lemon. The wine is light yellow, remarkably unevolved, bone dry, high acidity and pure crystalline. Lemon, lime, crushed rocks come through on the palate. Very tight and focused. This will get better in time.
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Popped and poured. Nice crisp nose of grass and wax. The wine is surprisingly youthful and remains light golden. The wine is steely, nervy with lots of acidity but also nicely balanced with flavors of lemon, grapefruit and stone fruits. After about 45 min in the glass the wine begins to flesh out with more orchard fruit flavors coming to the fore. This is an excellent wine and one that is going to have a long long life.
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Got this bottle from James Halliday Cellar Auction. Appearance: medium gold. Nose: medium plus intensity; aromas of pineapple, wax, honey, lanolin, button mushroom, toast. It's fully developed. Palate: dry, high acidity, some tannins present, low alcohol, medium body, medium plus intensity, some smoke, savoury/blue cheese and nuts characters on the palate. The finish is medium plus. Overall, it's a very good wine. Drink now, not suitable for further ageing. Not the best Vat 1 I have tried, but a high quality one from Tyrrell's. It's underwhelming on the nose, but the palate is quite impressive with complex smoke and a lot blue cheese notes, which reminds me of 2014 Andrew Thomas Braemore. These flavours offer great balance with the still high acidity. There's a little bit tannin-like bitterness lingering at the finish (some skin contact?). The fruits are fading quite a bit therefore not for further ageing.
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Nearly 4 years since my last and as then predicted approaching the end of its plateau. Lime leaf and grapefruit core with flinty minerality and fairly long dry lemony finish. The hint of viscosity of my older notes has gone leaving a racy elegant medium-bodied wine of real quality if not the greatest or most age-worthy VAT 1 vintage on the block! Drink up soon.
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Impressive this is still quite young. Light golden. Great nose for a semillion which I don’t usual think of an aromatic grape with grapefruit and mineral notes. The palate is delicious with pomelo, pineapple, herbs and minerals with a nice bead of acidity providing this lots of backbone. This is well balanced and integrated with a nice finish that should develop further complexity. Great wine.
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At its peak and not likely to improve, but a delicious glass of wine. Lemon posset-like fruit with a tremendous savoury gunflint note that edges to something cheesy at times. Very complex, particularly at the mid palate, well layered with tantalising minerality and acidity. Starts off rather light in the mouth but gains an unctuousness on the finish, which flavour wise, is a little shorter than I've had with better vintages.
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Another fine tyrrells vat 1. What was fascinating about this wine was tasting it over three days - each day it showed a different side of it. Nuts, minerals, tropical fruits. Nice body and concentration but lacking the depth of the best of these.
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This is really flying now and in its prime. Much less catty than in earlier noted outings. Lime zest, concentrated somewhat viscous lemony fruit - clean with a pronounced mineral spine and bone dry. Not a very long laster as with some vintages, nonetheless with this structure should comfortably see out the decade. Excellent.
Summer essential. Taste of beach terrace, salt and summer breeze blowing across the deck. All helps when you're lunching at The Boathouse Palm Beach.
Popped and poured. Lemon, lime freshness. Mineral spritz, sweet lime and lemon, beautiful fruit focus, sharp and harmonious this is a beautiful tipple, a goldilocks wine, good for all occassions and never lets you down.
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Refreshing acidity. Far more forward than the 2002 - which will 'live for ever'. Moorish lemon fruit and apple peel - makes my mouth water. Slight toasty elements. The best is yet to come, but you may be able to consume most of your supplies of this wine before the 2002 reaches the start of its best drinking years.
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Clean concentrated catty citrus nose otherwise as per my previous note (the good bits!) and having decanted the "amber nectar" for a full 2.5hrs on this occasion. Barely approaching plateau with perhaps (at least) another half dozen years at that peak. Fine if not the best vintage of this classic wine.
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Aromas on med(+) intensity with capisum, smoke, toast, honey, nuts. On the palate high acidity, medium body, low alcohol, fantastic complexity of flavors which are mainly lemon and pepper driven but plenty more joins to party. Medium to long finish.
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Opened five days ago: no nose; lean, sharp and frankly unpleasant. Put remains of bottle in fridge and forgot about it...... THEN: yesterday remembered bottle and poured to see if OK for a sauce. The 70- ugly (?mutant) duckling had turned into a 90+ swan. Strappy citrusy Hunter semillon, full glyceriny mouth feel - only sad my nose was out of action with a head cold to fully appreciate it. The moral of this tale - don't touch this wine till at least 2015 (or open and leave in fridge for a few days!!)
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Completely out there, Meyer lemon and smoky depth, minerals, quintessential Hunter Semillon, rich and lively, amazing acidity, deep and energetic, needs a few more years to settle down. Great stuff.
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Landmark Australia: Regional Classics: Fresh crisp almost grassy grapefruits and gooseberries. Racy grippy lemon powder. Lively and excited. Still too young and like biting on a lemon and grapefruit. Finishes with limestone chalkiness. Still needs more time t tone down.
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Closed down on the nose - very tightly wound and not giving much away. The palate has a richness to it that is nice, but it finishes quite softly and without the drive I hope for. Good, but probably needs time.
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2/11/2023 - tanduybui Likes this wine: 91 Points
A wine that still has significant potential upside given time. Lovely now but will be much better in a decade or two from now.
Still very tightly wound and needed time to open up so it is a wine that should be decanted at the moment. Lemon, citrus and stone fruits wrapped up high acidity which provided lovely freshness and raciness. Went very well with sushi and sashimi.
Drink ideally in 10+ years.
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4/23/2022 - mclanew Likes this wine: 93 Points
Popped and poured. Subtle nose of white flowers and lemon. The wine is light yellow, remarkably unevolved, bone dry, high acidity and pure crystalline. Lemon, lime, crushed rocks come through on the palate. Very tight and focused. This will get better in time.
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12/17/2020 - mclanew Likes this wine: 94 Points
Popped and poured. Nice crisp nose of grass and wax. The wine is surprisingly youthful and remains light golden. The wine is steely, nervy with lots of acidity but also nicely balanced with flavors of lemon, grapefruit and stone fruits. After about 45 min in the glass the wine begins to flesh out with more orchard fruit flavors coming to the fore. This is an excellent wine and one that is going to have a long long life.
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11/21/2020 - Jason Wu Likes this wine: 93 Points
Blue cheese, honey, smoke, cream, medium plus intensity, medium plus finish. Very good wine.
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10/2/2020 - Jason Wu Likes this wine: 93 Points
Got this bottle from James Halliday Cellar Auction.
Appearance: medium gold.
Nose: medium plus intensity; aromas of pineapple, wax, honey, lanolin, button mushroom, toast. It's fully developed.
Palate: dry, high acidity, some tannins present, low alcohol, medium body, medium plus intensity, some smoke, savoury/blue cheese and nuts characters on the palate. The finish is medium plus.
Overall, it's a very good wine. Drink now, not suitable for further ageing.
Not the best Vat 1 I have tried, but a high quality one from Tyrrell's. It's underwhelming on the nose, but the palate is quite impressive with complex smoke and a lot blue cheese notes, which reminds me of 2014 Andrew Thomas Braemore. These flavours offer great balance with the still high acidity. There's a little bit tannin-like bitterness lingering at the finish (some skin contact?). The fruits are fading quite a bit therefore not for further ageing.
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10/9/2019 - NickBurwood Likes this wine: 91 Points
Nearly 4 years since my last and as then predicted approaching the end of its plateau.
Lime leaf and grapefruit core with flinty minerality and fairly long dry lemony finish. The hint of viscosity of my older notes has gone leaving a racy elegant medium-bodied wine of real quality if not the greatest or most age-worthy VAT 1 vintage on the block!
Drink up soon.
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6/13/2019 - mclanew Likes this wine: 94 Points
Impressive this is still quite young. Light golden. Great nose for a semillion which I don’t usual think of an aromatic grape with grapefruit and mineral notes. The palate is delicious with pomelo, pineapple, herbs and minerals with a nice bead of acidity providing this lots of backbone. This is well balanced and integrated with a nice finish that should develop further complexity. Great wine.
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7/26/2016 - depechemoroder Likes this wine: 92 Points
At its peak and not likely to improve, but a delicious glass of wine. Lemon posset-like fruit with a tremendous savoury gunflint note that edges to something cheesy at times. Very complex, particularly at the mid palate, well layered with tantalising minerality and acidity. Starts off rather light in the mouth but gains an unctuousness on the finish, which flavour wise, is a little shorter than I've had with better vintages.
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2/6/2016 - mclanew Likes this wine: 91 Points
Another fine tyrrells vat 1. What was fascinating about this wine was tasting it over three days - each day it showed a different side of it. Nuts, minerals, tropical fruits. Nice body and concentration but lacking the depth of the best of these.
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1/13/2016 - NickBurwood Likes this wine: 91 Points
This is really flying now and in its prime.
Much less catty than in earlier noted outings. Lime zest, concentrated somewhat viscous lemony fruit - clean with a pronounced mineral spine and bone dry.
Not a very long laster as with some vintages, nonetheless with this structure should comfortably see out the decade. Excellent.
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11/20/2014 - MyCellar01 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Summer essential. Taste of beach terrace, salt and summer breeze blowing across the deck. All helps when you're lunching at The Boathouse Palm Beach.
Popped and poured.
Lemon, lime freshness.
Mineral spritz, sweet lime and lemon, beautiful fruit focus, sharp and harmonious this is a beautiful tipple, a goldilocks wine, good for all occassions and never lets you down.
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1/10/2014 - Softie Likes this wine:
Very nice wine.
Refreshing acidity. Far more forward than the 2002 - which will 'live for ever'. Moorish lemon fruit and apple peel - makes my mouth water. Slight toasty elements. The best is yet to come, but you may be able to consume most of your supplies of this wine before the 2002 reaches the start of its best drinking years.
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8/19/2013 - NickBurwood wrote: 91 Points
Clean concentrated catty citrus nose otherwise as per my previous note (the good bits!) and having decanted the "amber nectar" for a full 2.5hrs on this occasion.
Barely approaching plateau with perhaps (at least) another half dozen years at that peak. Fine if not the best vintage of this classic wine.
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7/5/2013 - SLIMES Likes this wine:
I wasn't thrilled with this on opening but it showed best on night 3 before fading from then on.
On night three there was a really good toasty nose. I'm new to aged Semillon but I think I'll focus on aged Riesling as a better buy.
Bottom line: Worth buying but either age this further or leave it open for a few days.
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5/4/2013 - Hifiguyoz wrote: 93 Points
My wife actually thought it was a Chardy
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4/13/2013 - Hifiguyoz Likes this wine: 92 Points
Was great with a challenging singapore chilli crab
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4/1/2013 - say66what wrote: 93 Points
Aromas on med(+) intensity with capisum, smoke, toast, honey, nuts. On the palate high acidity, medium body, low alcohol, fantastic complexity of flavors which are mainly lemon and pepper driven but plenty more joins to party. Medium to long finish.
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3/1/2013 - pcwoz wrote: 90 Points
very nice indeed. Bright and crisp. Very subtle but drinking well. Very nice citrus notes. Could still leave quite a while for more development
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11/9/2012 - NickBurwood Likes this wine: 90 Points
Opened five days ago: no nose; lean, sharp and frankly unpleasant. Put remains of bottle in fridge and forgot about it......
THEN: yesterday remembered bottle and poured to see if OK for a sauce. The 70- ugly (?mutant) duckling had turned into a 90+ swan.
Strappy citrusy Hunter semillon, full glyceriny mouth feel - only sad my nose was out of action with a head cold to fully appreciate it.
The moral of this tale - don't touch this wine till at least 2015 (or open and leave in fridge for a few days!!)
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4/5/2012 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 93 Points
Completely out there, Meyer lemon and smoky depth, minerals, quintessential Hunter Semillon, rich and lively, amazing acidity, deep and energetic, needs a few more years to settle down. Great stuff.
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3/10/2012 - oliverrix wrote: 90 Points
Delicate
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5/31/2011 - sebastienjm wrote: 85 Points
Bon. sans +. Prix non justifié. peut être qu'une garde de 5 ans de + s'impose?
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10/30/2010 - Li6 wrote: 91 Points
An amazing, cerebral wine featuring lemon curd, brioche, and a distinctive earthiness that fans out on the finish. Finishes very long and snappy.
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5/4/2010 - Alex H wrote: 83 Points
Landmark Australia: Regional Classics: Fresh crisp almost grassy grapefruits and gooseberries. Racy grippy lemon powder. Lively and excited. Still too young and like biting on a lemon and grapefruit. Finishes with limestone chalkiness. Still needs more time t tone down.
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7/20/2005 - CamWheeler wrote: 88 Points
Closed down on the nose - very tightly wound and not giving much away. The palate has a richness to it that is nice, but it finishes quite softly and without the drive I hope for. Good, but probably needs time.
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