Community Tasting Notes 17

• Geoff7777 wrote:

  February 26, 2024 - I have had this wine 3 times in 6 weeks, this bottle the finest, retains its freshness and Lovedale typicity. Lanolin, faint toast, beeswax, cooked limes and a wonderful mouthfeel and long finish. Recently released from the vineyard I suspect, as while the bottles vary they are remarkably consistent for 28 years under cork seal. No cork wood evident in best bottles and none have been oxidised 18.75.

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• Geoff7777 wrote:

  September 22, 2023 - Semillon Lunch (Grappa Leichhardt): A rich gold colour but still pale at the edge. Developed toasty aromas over the lemon curd fruit. Mature palate, long, complex, lemony with lanolin and nutty/almond notes kept fresh by the lively acidity. A crowd pleaser RW1 18.5

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• MacropusRufus Likes this wine: 92 points

  June 29, 2022 - One of the best aged Hunter Semillons I've ever tasted. Cork came out cleanly (thanks to the Durand corkscrew). Deep lemon yellow colour - thank goodness no brown. Faint toast on the nose. Palate of honey on light toast. Still some acid underlying it all. A beautifully aged Hunter Semillon from a very good year. Supernacular! Two left in my cellar as of June 2022.

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• cogo44 Likes this wine:

  July 23, 2019 - I once asked Phil Ryan about ten years ago, if there was ever a fire in the Mount Pleasant winery, which wine would be the first he would grab before getting out. This was the wine he nominated. He told me that about 50% of bottles were tipped due to poor corks. I got hold of eight bottles that had been checked. I drank my last bottle two years ago. It was a classic older style Hunter semillon with lovely rich honey notes living on top of the straw and lemon. I hope the 2009 Lovedale lives up to my memory of this wine. By the way, the 2015 Lovedale was declassified and can be obtained for about $25 if you ask nicely. I have yet to try it, but was assured that It was not too shabby.

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• fizz wrote:

  October 13, 2018 - 55th TWIGS Tasting (Villa Chang): Cork (only 1/3 soaked). 10.5% alc.
  Mid golden. Smells of lemon, straw, pineapple, toast and a touch of kerosene. Palate still had some lift from the acid line. It's quite settled and resolved though. With food, the wine seemed even fresher.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1996
• Type White
• Producer Mount Pleasant Wines
• Varietal Sémillon
• Designation Single Vineyard
• Vineyard Lovedale
• Country Australia
• Region New South Wales
• SubRegion Hunter Valley
• Appellation Hunter Valley

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• In Cellars 78 (62%)
• Consumed 48 (38%)

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