2017 Brokenwood Sémillon ILR Reserve

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 91 points

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  3/1/2024 - richard.presser Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Minor colour development. Fruit aromas just emerging. Quite fine.
  Ditto flavours. Perfectly poised to emerge in a decade or more. From memory, this is not on the level of the 2014, which I expect to be an absolute classic vintage, but this has bones to be wonderful drinking in 10-15 years.
  Stop press- touch of acetone emerging as it sits and warms… Hmm.

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  12/27/2023 - mmilgate Likes this wine:

  At 6 years of age on release, the colour is just starting to show some development with yellow tints complimenting the green edges.
  Lifted lemon citrus and floral notes heading to bees wax, brioche and toast.
  Lively Tahitian lime juice characters are backed by a superb, zesty acidity.
  The fruit for th e 2017 ILR Reserve was sourced from the Trevena Vineyard on Hermitage Road, an important Heritage Vineyard, with vines having been planted in 1926. The Trevena Vineyard was picked in two passes on the 30th of January and the 1st of February 2017 which is just as well. The weekend of 10th - 12th February saw the temperature hit 44, 47 and 46C.

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  9/23/2023 - chatters wrote:

  Grape, Grain and Graze Festival (Olympic Park, Homebush, Sydney): Medium minus intensity aromas of apple, sulphur, fresh grass. Medium plus intensity acidity, apple skin bitterness, textured burr. Hmm.

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  8/6/2022 - chatters wrote:

  Grape, Grain and Graze Festival (Sydney showgrounds, Sydney): Initially some aromas of kerosene, slightly honeyed, butter and apple. Juicy, tangy, tightly textured grip. Apple skin bitterness. Okay.

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