2004 Tyrrell's Sémillon Vat 1

Community Tasting Notes (25) Avg Score: 91 points

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  8/6/2023 - Avid Wino wrote: 92 Points

  Judging what’s in the glass I’d place this as a potentially excellent Hunter Semillon of 6-8 years age. Not a 19 year old Vat 1. Lime and buttered toast for the most part. Wet hay and I think a little lanolin peeking through, though it could be wishful thinking on my part. Light medium bodied, enough length for the score. Excellent but alas no fireworks.

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  7/6/2022 - RE31 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Still very fresh. Consumed with a variety of Pakistani dishes, so spicy food, and it was up to the task. Crisp enough to cut through the food, but still deliver on its own flavours. Delicious and still more time in bottle will not hurt this wine. - from the assistant....The wine looks light gold colored. The legs are medium. There is no sediment in the bottle. It smells like lemon and apple. It tastes like lemon and apple. The body is medium. The wine has silky texture. The wine finishes short. The wine has medium acidity.

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  6/28/2022 - grapenomad wrote: 94 Points

  One of my favourite wines to bring to a blind tasting and fuck with people. Guesses are either Chablis or cool-climate Aussie Chardonnay from recent vintages. Deep and impactful on the palate, a kaleidoscope of lime juice, toast, white nectarine and salinity. Slightly unctuous in texture, energetic with lovely tension. Only 10.2% abv. A wine still in action, so no rush in drinking this up.

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  11/16/2021 - Geoff7777 wrote:

  GraemeG note below nails it. The wine is still quite youthful in appearance and structure, but seems to be fading, the fruit diminishing without being replaced by the toast/wet wool/soapy flavour combo we expect of Vat 1 at maturity. The acidity is all lime juice and provides a long refreshing finish, its the mid palate width that is missing in action, wet grass rather than wet wool. This is the first commercially released vintage under screw cap, so this is not bottle variation, and some wrinkles are to be expected. Still a fabulous Hunter Semillon, but certainly no crowdpleaser.

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  7/25/2021 - graemeg wrote:

  {screwcap, 10.2%} First vintage under screwcap I believe. Still greenish, but does look a bit aged, with some darkening. Nose is a bit muted, very grassy, with a browning apple character to it. A little bit of classic Hunter toast but it’s all very refined. The palate is almost spritzy in its vibrancy, but there’s a turning of fruit flavour to the browning spectrum, leaves, older hay and straw. Only light/medium-bodied at best. Doesn’t taste under-ripe despite the very low alcohol, there’s no residual sugar, botrytis, oak either. Although there’s a little in the way of green beans and asparagus if you look for it. Not all that complex for mine, at least not yet. Nicely even along the palate though, with presence extending the full length of the tongue. And, to be fair, a medium/long finish too. No harm in keeping this til it’s twenty. Might not win friends for aged Hunter semillon as a concept, however.

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