• rapcor Likes this wine: 92 points

    February 26, 2024 - Outstanding semillon with superior character and style. All that I expect from a good Lovedale Semillon. I sensed it could improve even more over the next 4 year. However, excellent drinking now.

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  • tanduybui Likes this wine: 94 points

    March 7, 2023 - This is just barely getting started.

    Just beginning to speak with some fluidity, it is now lemon, slight nutty and has some floral notes. Body consists of lime / lemon, rich with fantastic acidity to drive it to the end. Great mouthfeel and can only get better with a structured and creamy finish. A voice that can go a lot higher if you give it more time.

    Drink now or to 15+ years.

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  • For The Love of Loosen Likes this wine: 93 points

    September 16, 2022 - Light golden, straw coloured. Nose of beeswax and honeyed lemon. Lovely zinging acidity, dancing along the tongue. 11.5% ABV. This wine is absolutely singing. 93+.

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  • Nicthebuilder Likes this wine: 94 points

    January 26, 2022 - Frightfully young given it’s 15 years in the bottle, thanks to the screw cap. Beautifully ripe grapefruit and candied lemon peel, candle wax and lanolin, acid backbone of steel, long piercing finish. Many more years of development ahead but glad to try it now to see how it evolves and an absolute pleasure to taste.

    Edit: day 2 and this wine has opened up beautifully, still tightly wound but the fruit is bright and out there all over the palate with fresh cut grass and fresh herbs. Fantastic wine with a long future ahead, upping my score 2 points from 92 to 94

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  • chbeaumont wrote: 92 points

    August 26, 2021 - This has hardly progressed since two years ago. An attractive floral nose, thrilling tension, needs another 5 years.

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  • azzah Likes this wine: 94 points

    May 3, 2021 - Sensational. Great now but capacity to age another decade, easy. Flowers, honey, toast, lemon, wax, minerals. Completeness but complexity. Long flavours. Beautiful with scallops and sushi.

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  • GD77 wrote: 94 points

    January 29, 2021 - Opened with CO2 pop and a bit of fizz. Powerful Sémillon, viscous and oily. Golden colour but didn't come across the palette with too much age. Lovely match to prawns. No ruch to drink this yet but it is in a very good place.

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  • Keith Cooper Likes this wine: 94 points

    June 22, 2020 - I'd been saving this bottle to share with a friend who I know likes this style of aged new world semillon. Served lightly chilled, 13C, to accompany bread and cheese lunch. Opened and poured. It's surprisingly colourful, bright yellow with a hint of gold. The nose is rich and aromatic, slightly oily. The palate is great, very quaffable, smooth, fresh, citrusy, tangerine. It's very well balance, the acidity is perfect giving a great balance of ageing and good fruit. It's rare for me to give any white wine more than 90, but I thought this was excellent. Sadly, I have no more.

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  • peterchoy wrote: 93 points

    June 12, 2020 - Appearance: Bright and clear, the wine is of light gold colour, with wide watery rims and legs.
    Nose: Clean, with medium (+) intensity aromas of citrus fruit of lemon and lime, green fruit of green apple, floral notes of blossom, tropical fruit of pineapple, maturity notes of honey, oak notes of toast, mineral notes of wax. The wine is developing.
    Palate: Dry with medium acidity, the wine has medium (-) alcohol, full body and medium (+) intensity flavours of citrus fruit of lemon, dairy notes of butter, green fruit of apple, floral notes of blossom, mineral notes of wax, maturity notes of honey. The wine has a long finish.
    Conclusion: Very good quality Hunter Valley Semillon, with an intense nose showing great complexity, highlighting the wonderful varietal aromas of citrus and green apple, some floral notes with also tropical fruit, waxy and honey. The palate is robust with decent acidity, relatively low in alcohol but with full body and good concentration, plus a long finish. It is ready to drink now and can maintain for another 3-5 years.

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  • mphatic wrote:

    April 9, 2020 - Screwcap, 11.4% alc. Youthful light gold-yellow colour.

    Lemon, lanolin, and some cut grass. Nuts, honey, and toast.
    Well-balanced with decent length for a relatively light body. Almost has a CO2 spritz. Acidity holds onto the fruit well.

    Opinion: Nice drinking now. Nose comes across more mature than the palate, which could handle another decade in the cellar. Held up well for a week after opening.

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