2014 Tyrrell's Johnno's Sémillon

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  3/14/2024 - Geoff7777 wrote:

  i enjoyed a 2006 Vat 1 this week so this wine will be benchmarked against it for style and quality. Very pale for age, green tinged lemon. On opening the nose is all cut grass and hay, and it takes some time for more to reveal. Mouth feel is more textural than typical Tyrrell style, probably the basket press and solids thing, so it’s old school. With time some honey adds to the hay but I’m needing more to be convinced. A half bottle remains for tomorrow. Day 2 and it’s still honey and hay. Aging at a glacial pace, I will leave the remaining bottles for 2030 or later. Interesting winemaking but I wonder if they should use Belford fruit for this style 17.75.

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  2/3/2024 - graemeg wrote:

  {screwcap, 11%} Finally decided it was time to try one of these. Might be ten, but you’d never know by the appearance. Still with flashes of green, in fact. A mass of gentle ripeness on the nose; mango, apricot, along with the expected grass and straw. After some hours the more outrageous fruit settles down, but there always remains a purity of presence, a line of underlying citrus to the palate. It’s only light-bodied, but has a long, dry, but perfectly ripe presence on the finish. Clean, light, but beguiling Hunter semillon at its youthful(!) best. It’s more ethereal than my experience of vat 1; whether that’s due to the effects of century-old grapes or the ancient handling styles I couldn’t say. But on this tasting it can be kept another twenty years easily. Wonderful stuff.

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  5/17/2017 - VinCapitan wrote: 90 Points

  lemons, green, austere, lean and light, bright fruited, finishes a smidge sour for mine. So young 90

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  1/17/2015 - graemeg wrote:

  Hunter Valley - 6 Cellar Doors (Hunter Valley): {screwcap, 11.5%, A$38} Pure grass, citric qualities, with a touch of honey. Medium level acidity, but only light-bodied. The palate is soft and floral, with a pure watery limpidity to it. Ethereal and restrained. Very pretty. Nice to drink now; wonder how these are aging?

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