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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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An absolutely stunning wine at 12 years of age. Good nose honey toast slight citrus and apricot dried fruit. An outstanding wine that has more life left.
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Golden yellow. Mature nose. Still that slight spritzig on front of tongue. Mid to mature development with browning toast mixed with citrus, lemon peel and pretty high acidity still giving it that clean finish which seems a tad short. Doesn't hit the heights for me but a good example nevertheless.
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Has a golden colour forming. Made me expect it to be further developed than it is. Doesn’t feel like a 12 y/o. A fair bit of prickle upon opening give it a hint to its expected longevity. Some lemon rind and steeliness to go with the early zip, followed by slight toasty, brioche notes which linger on. Very good length. No rush on these.
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Aged Hunter fun (Frank's place in Matraville): Apple, lemon, slightly herbaceous and grassy, just beginning to get the toast and buttery underpin. Juicy, rich, that buttery note here as well. Long as well. Lovely.
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Still relatively pale lemon-straw colour, with good brightness & clarity.
Good complexity on the vibrant nose, with lime, grass, a touch of petrol, some honey.
Vibrant acidity at the start supported by honey, but the acidity kicks in quickly to lead into the sour-edged lime, enveloped in appealing butteriness that carries long into the finish.
Interesting and enjoyable now, but no reason to think it couldn't do another decade with ease, and improve with time.
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Pale primrose, slight prickle; phenolics, touch of spice, quietly floral; lively, vivacious, good mouthfeel; very long. This is a long distance runner.
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Hunter Whistlestop 2019 #1 (Hunter Valley): Lemon and lime cordial, toast, juicy, green apples over citrus, toast, honey, butter, alcohol warmth is non-intrusive, all travel long in a harmonious fashion. Very good with plenty of longevity.
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Maturity seems to have halted since the last bottle a couple of years ago. This one looks almost exactly like the last. Preserved lemon, wax, some toasty notes over pure lemon and lime. The acid has rounded out a little but there is still plenty there. There is a slight spritz when first opened but it disappears with air. I’d be confident with another 10 years on this but it’s already a beautiful wine.
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Vertical tasting of 07/09/11 vintages. Fairly high in acidity, touch bitterness at finish, maybe the weakest of the three vintages but still pretty good.
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Hunter Valley - 4 Cellar Doors (Hunter Valley): {screwcap, 11.5%, $72} Toast, smoke, browning straw. Medium weight palate with medium acid. Lively palate, not young but flavourful, but all browning-type flavours. Medium length finish. Seems advanced for barely a decade in bottle.
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Strange. A bottle under Selvin seal that has undergone secondary fermentation in the bottle. Not a good taste. Sad after the one opened on Christmas day.
Whistestop Hunter tour (Hunter Valley): Medium minus intensity aromas of honey, apple, toast, grassy notes,. Softly juicy and easy. Apples, honey over slightly herbaceous notes and lemon and a touch of front of mouth grip. Exceedingly long. Splendid.
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The citrus aromas are somewhere close to lime, but not quite that. There's a mix of lanolin and florals too. The palate is developing nicely, still retaining the acids to keep it neat, but softness and a touch creamy as well. Disappeared rather quickly. 11.5% alc.
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NobleRottersSydney - Langtons Classification (360 Bar & Dining, Sydney): {screwcap, 11.5%} Beautifully classic nose of aging toasty Hunter Semillon aromas. Still some grass and straw – from the primary phase – and the colour is still light and shot through with green. It’s medium-bodied, still with fresh acid, but really starting to develop nicely. Even palate, with a long dry finish. Quintessential Hunter sem at its peak. Likely to hold another 10 years easily.
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Over dinner with Isaac and Lilian at home. Perched between adolescence and maturity, this was a very pleasing wine. The nose had started taking on the aromas of a mature Hunter Semillion, with deeper notes of walnut cream and honey alongside sweet lemon curd, green herbs and flinty minerality. The palate took a bit of air to get going, but when it did, it showed a nice round fleshiness, with deep lemony notes shading into white apple flesh and almost stone fruit notes, with a little honeyed shade in the background. On the back palate, a lovely seam of citrusy acidity pulled the wine into a long finish of lime zest, mineral and a little herb and spice. Full, deep and well balanced, this was a very nice wine indeed, with many years ahead of it yet.
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Very greenish yellow. Petrol, lemon, lime pie, some biscuit notes developing. Racy acidity but quite creamy texture. On the palate also lots of citrus fruits but riper than in the nose (mandarin, sweet tangerine) combined with a slightly bitter touch and petrolic aroma. Nice playful and lingering finish. Still in full development, patience will be rewarded with even more complexity (such as more biscuit and toasty aromas). But this is delicious now, always a pleasure and something special. Hunter Valley at its best.
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I don't get it. Really, this wine does nothing special for me. Quite a rich, waxy, appley nose. In the mouth a distinct fizz from the added CO2, and a lovely acidity but honestly, not much else. Obviously it's young and very tight, but I can't help but think at 8 years old there should be more going on by now for a wine of such supposed quality.
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Hunter Valley Roadtrip 2015: Flint, lime, floral notes and spice. Good acidity, just barely starting to have some of the acidity round out but there is still a good amount of development remaining.
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Pale lemon, bright with a green tinge. Lemon, waxy, hint of reduction, straw, lemon curd. Excellent intensity, lemon zest with hint of limes and some honey. Quite a rich fleshy wine at this early stage, finish is chalky/waxy and more restrained with long lingering lemon curd notes and a zesty minerality. Delicious drinking now but undoubtedly ageworthy.
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Light golden green in colour. Honey, toast and a little lemon rind developing through the regular citrus flavours. Delicious already and it's only going to get better.
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Hunter Valley - 6 Cellar Doors (Hunter Valley): {screwcap, 11.5%, A$64} Smoky and toasty. Citrus fruits with a honey twist. Still young; the acid is holding up well; it’s light/medium-bodied, dry, and with a medium/long finish. Great example of hunter Semillon with another decade’s aging at least ahead of it.
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Tasted at National Wine Centre, Adelaide: Young nose of lime pith and juice. Touch of honey too. Palate is full of citrus, balanced, young and zesty. A good wine now - potential for greatness in the future. Points for the "here and now".
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Wine-Ark boys on tour - Hunter Valley 2014 - Day 2 (Hunter Valley): Flinty, mineral notes, quite dense nose, bacon fat, slight citrus and apple fruit. In the mouth there are flavours of apple with slight cream elements, well balanced and harmonious. Long finish. Lovely.
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Quite a big yeasty, almost toasty nose. Really nice balance with a dense zesty green apple flavour yet zippy and light on it's feet. Good length on the midpalate and a long yeasty finish. Excellent.
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(Langtons w Mich&Bo) Light, sweet nose of white flowers, green grass, lanolin, crisp acidity, elegant and poised. Perfect hunter Semillon showing hint of age and heaps potential!
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Langton's Classification Tasting (Carraigeworks, Sydney): Some sweaty notes, hay/straw and lemon. Very good balance, with excellent length. Has potential, this is the third time I've tried it and it has been very consistent. I do slightly prefer the Vat 1 this vintage.
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Hunter Valley Visit 2013; 4/26/2013-4/29/2013 (Hunter Valley, Australia): Consistent with previous tasting in December last year. Straw, light smoke and hay on the nose and it has already taken on some waxy notes. Youthful and intense on the palate with good length and texture. Give it time.
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My first hunter semillon, been looking forward to trying something like this - even though it's very young. Lovely bright and clear light golden colour. Lemon and grassy notes on the nose. Light bodied, crisp lemon, a little grapefruit as well with crunchy acidity. A very long acid finish should hold this in stead for a long long time.
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Hunter Wineries (1) - Mt PLeasant & McDonald Rd: {screwcap, 11.5%, A$60} Developing nose (and palate) of wax, lanolin and hay. Medium-high acidity disguises the richness of the flavours. Medium bodied and dry. Somewhat developed palate; flavor coats all the tongue. Finishes long and fresh still. Has years ahead of it; another 8-10 til peak.
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Christmas and End of Year Tasting: Smoke and grass on the nose with a little bit of wax. Very youthful on the palate but it has some decent character to it and good length. Needs some more time to show its best.
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Mount Pleasant Wines Member Tasting (Coast Restaurant): new release of this wine. It is still very hard and there is a slight spritz in the bottle, presumably from carbon dioxide to keep it fresh. needs a lot more time
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2012 Sydney Royal Wine Show - Exhibitor's Tasting (Olympic Park, Homebush): Silver medal. {screwcap} Doesn’t Hunter semillon taste distinctive after all these rieslings? Clean straw, lemon & grass aromas. A light-bodied, crunchily-acidic, cleanly textured wine, still thoroughly primary at five years old; dry, naturally, and with a medium-length finish. Expect it to put on weight in all departments as the years pass. Top effort.
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2/26/2024 - rapcor Likes this wine: 92 Points
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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3/7/2023 - tanduybui Likes this wine: 94 Points
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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9/16/2022 - For The Love of Loosen Likes this wine: 93 Points
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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1/26/2022 - Nicthebuilder Likes this wine: 94 Points
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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8/26/2021 - chbeaumont wrote: 92 Points
This has hardly progressed since two years ago. An attractive floral nose, thrilling tension, needs another 5 years.
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5/3/2021 - azzah Likes this wine: 94 Points
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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1/29/2021 - GD77 wrote: 94 Points
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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6/22/2020 - Keith Cooper Likes this wine: 94 Points
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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6/12/2020 - peterchoy wrote: 93 Points
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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4/9/2020 - mphatic wrote:
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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12/31/2019 - Redback Likes this wine:
Gold in colour. Lemon curd backed by a great line of acid. Excellent!
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12/27/2019 - Aussiewinetours Likes this wine: 97 Points
An absolutely stunning wine at 12 years of age. Good nose honey toast slight citrus and apricot dried fruit. An outstanding wine that has more life left.
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12/21/2019 - crazywineguy wrote: 89 Points
Golden yellow. Mature nose. Still that slight spritzig on front of tongue. Mid to mature development with browning toast mixed with citrus, lemon peel and pretty high acidity still giving it that clean finish which seems a tad short. Doesn't hit the heights for me but a good example nevertheless.
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10/20/2019 - Jimmy_D Likes this wine: 93 Points
Has a golden colour forming. Made me expect it to be further developed than it is. Doesn’t feel like a 12 y/o. A fair bit of prickle upon opening give it a hint to its expected longevity. Some lemon rind and steeliness to go with the early zip, followed by slight toasty, brioche notes which linger on. Very good length. No rush on these.
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9/15/2019 - G_H wrote: 91 Points
Some sulfur, lemon peel, candied orange, intense acidity
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7/28/2019 - chatters wrote:
Aged Hunter fun (Frank's place in Matraville): Apple, lemon, slightly herbaceous and grassy, just beginning to get the toast and buttery underpin. Juicy, rich, that buttery note here as well. Long as well. Lovely.
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5/10/2019 - Ian S wrote:
Well this is ageing nicely.
Still relatively pale lemon-straw colour, with good brightness & clarity.
Good complexity on the vibrant nose, with lime, grass, a touch of petrol, some honey.
Vibrant acidity at the start supported by honey, but the acidity kicks in quickly to lead into the sour-edged lime, enveloped in appealing butteriness that carries long into the finish.
Interesting and enjoyable now, but no reason to think it couldn't do another decade with ease, and improve with time.
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3/28/2019 - chbeaumont wrote: 92 Points
Pale primrose, slight prickle; phenolics, touch of spice, quietly floral; lively, vivacious, good mouthfeel; very long. This is a long distance runner.
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3/9/2019 - Ozmango Likes this wine: 92 Points
Very dry and austere. Little hint of varietal character. Needs a light flavoured meal. Does not take kindly to spice.
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3/2/2019 - chatters wrote:
Hunter Whistlestop 2019 #1 (Hunter Valley): Lemon and lime cordial, toast, juicy, green apples over citrus, toast, honey, butter, alcohol warmth is non-intrusive, all travel long in a harmonious fashion. Very good with plenty of longevity.
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1/13/2019 - BPej Likes this wine: 94 Points
Maturity seems to have halted since the last bottle a couple of years ago. This one looks almost exactly like the last. Preserved lemon, wax, some toasty notes over pure lemon and lime. The acid has rounded out a little but there is still plenty there. There is a slight spritz when first opened but it disappears with air. I’d be confident with another 10 years on this but it’s already a beautiful wine.
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2/20/2018 - pclin wrote:
Vertical tasting of 07/09/11 vintages. Fairly high in acidity, touch bitterness at finish, maybe the weakest of the three vintages but still pretty good.
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1/20/2018 - graemeg wrote:
Hunter Valley - 4 Cellar Doors (Hunter Valley): {screwcap, 11.5%, $72} Toast, smoke, browning straw. Medium weight palate with medium acid. Lively palate, not young but flavourful, but all browning-type flavours. Medium length finish. Seems advanced for barely a decade in bottle.
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1/2/2018 - Ozmango wrote: flawed
Strange. A bottle under Selvin seal that has undergone secondary fermentation in the bottle. Not a good taste. Sad after the one opened on Christmas day.
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12/25/2017 - Ozmango Likes this wine: 93 Points
Showing why you should age a Hunter Semillon. Starting to hit it's straps at 10 years. Lovely.
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11/28/2017 - chatters wrote:
Whistestop Hunter tour (Hunter Valley): Medium minus intensity aromas of honey, apple, toast, grassy notes,. Softly juicy and easy. Apples, honey over slightly herbaceous notes and lemon and a touch of front of mouth grip. Exceedingly long. Splendid.
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4/27/2017 - fizz wrote:
The citrus aromas are somewhere close to lime, but not quite that. There's a mix of lanolin and florals too. The palate is developing nicely, still retaining the acids to keep it neat, but softness and a touch creamy as well. Disappeared rather quickly.
11.5% alc.
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12/5/2016 - graemeg wrote:
NobleRottersSydney - Langtons Classification (360 Bar & Dining, Sydney): {screwcap, 11.5%} Beautifully classic nose of aging toasty Hunter Semillon aromas. Still some grass and straw – from the primary phase – and the colour is still light and shot through with green. It’s medium-bodied, still with fresh acid, but really starting to develop nicely. Even palate, with a long dry finish. Quintessential Hunter sem at its peak. Likely to hold another 10 years easily.
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11/13/2016 - ProfByron Likes this wine: 89 Points
Lovely nose, but a bit broad and harsh on palate, lacks the juicy fruit core. Peter Lehmann Margaret from same vintage was prettier.
11.5% ABV, sealed with screwcap.
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8/13/2016 - Paul S wrote: 92 Points
Over dinner with Isaac and Lilian at home. Perched between adolescence and maturity, this was a very pleasing wine. The nose had started taking on the aromas of a mature Hunter Semillion, with deeper notes of walnut cream and honey alongside sweet lemon curd, green herbs and flinty minerality. The palate took a bit of air to get going, but when it did, it showed a nice round fleshiness, with deep lemony notes shading into white apple flesh and almost stone fruit notes, with a little honeyed shade in the background. On the back palate, a lovely seam of citrusy acidity pulled the wine into a long finish of lime zest, mineral and a little herb and spice. Full, deep and well balanced, this was a very nice wine indeed, with many years ahead of it yet.
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7/4/2016 - multimax Likes this wine: 92 Points
Very greenish yellow. Petrol, lemon, lime pie, some biscuit notes developing. Racy acidity but quite creamy texture. On the palate also lots of citrus fruits but riper than in the nose (mandarin, sweet tangerine) combined with a slightly bitter touch and petrolic aroma. Nice playful and lingering finish. Still in full development, patience will be rewarded with even more complexity (such as more biscuit and toasty aromas). But this is delicious now, always a pleasure and something special. Hunter Valley at its best.
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1/26/2016 - fizz wrote: 91 Points
A lovely example of Hunter Sem. Lemon curd, flint, lanolin. Still tight, but reveals more and more with time in the glass.
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1/1/2016 - BPej Likes this wine: 94 Points
Its evolving a bit quicker than expected but full of all the aged Semillon goodness. Citrus, lemon curd, honey and wax.
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11/21/2015 - Indran Rajendra wrote: 98 Points
Pale gold. Lanolin, lemon,lime,passionfruit,hay,pineapple with aged toast and honey. Well balanced with great length.
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7/29/2015 - 99tollap wrote: 88 Points
I don't get it. Really, this wine does nothing special for me. Quite a rich, waxy, appley nose. In the mouth a distinct fizz from the added CO2, and a lovely acidity but honestly, not much else. Obviously it's young and very tight, but I can't help but think at 8 years old there should be more going on by now for a wine of such supposed quality.
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5/31/2015 - CamWheeler wrote: 91 Points
Hunter Valley Roadtrip 2015: Flint, lime, floral notes and spice. Good acidity, just barely starting to have some of the acidity round out but there is still a good amount of development remaining.
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4/25/2015 - vespasian wrote:
Dry refreshing and elegant styled semillon; pretty youthful, little development. Could age for many years yet.
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4/13/2015 - Vini Ciclismo Likes this wine: 94 Points
Pale lemon, bright with a green tinge.
Lemon, waxy, hint of reduction, straw, lemon curd.
Excellent intensity, lemon zest with hint of limes and some honey. Quite a rich fleshy wine at this early stage, finish is chalky/waxy and more restrained with long lingering lemon curd notes and a zesty minerality. Delicious drinking now but undoubtedly ageworthy.
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4/3/2015 - BPej Likes this wine: 93 Points
Light golden green in colour. Honey, toast and a little lemon rind developing through the regular citrus flavours. Delicious already and it's only going to get better.
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1/17/2015 - graemeg wrote:
Hunter Valley - 6 Cellar Doors (Hunter Valley): {screwcap, 11.5%, A$64} Smoky and toasty. Citrus fruits with a honey twist. Still young; the acid is holding up well; it’s light/medium-bodied, dry, and with a medium/long finish. Great example of hunter Semillon with another decade’s aging at least ahead of it.
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11/25/2014 - RieslingFanatic Likes this wine: 88 Points
Tasted at National Wine Centre, Adelaide: Young nose of lime pith and juice. Touch of honey too. Palate is full of citrus, balanced, young and zesty. A good wine now - potential for greatness in the future. Points for the "here and now".
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9/13/2014 - chatters wrote:
Wine-Ark boys on tour - Hunter Valley 2014 - Day 2 (Hunter Valley): Flinty, mineral notes, quite dense nose, bacon fat, slight citrus and apple fruit. In the mouth there are flavours of apple with slight cream elements, well balanced and harmonious. Long finish. Lovely.
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12/30/2013 - CamWheeler wrote: 91 Points
Visit to the Hunter: Toast, spice, graphite, lime and wax. Good length, intensity and balance, ageing slowly with plenty of time left.
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10/2/2013 - Biggsy wrote: 91 Points
Quite a big yeasty, almost toasty nose. Really nice balance with a dense zesty green apple flavour yet zippy and light on it's feet. Good length on the midpalate and a long yeasty finish. Excellent.
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9/6/2013 - JerM wrote:
(Langtons w Mich&Bo) Light, sweet nose of white flowers, green grass, lanolin, crisp acidity, elegant and poised. Perfect hunter Semillon showing hint of age and heaps potential!
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9/5/2013 - CamWheeler wrote: 91 Points
Langton's Classification Tasting (Carraigeworks, Sydney): Some sweaty notes, hay/straw and lemon. Very good balance, with excellent length. Has potential, this is the third time I've tried it and it has been very consistent. I do slightly prefer the Vat 1 this vintage.
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6/10/2013 - startinoz wrote: 92 Points
Granny Smith apple acidity. Creamy honey, lemon and toast. More subtle than the 2006 Elizabeth next to it. But is it better? Maybe
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5/14/2013 - chatters wrote:
Apple, slightly herbaceous, medium plus acid, tart, lovely.
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4/27/2013 - CamWheeler wrote: 91 Points
Hunter Valley Visit 2013; 4/26/2013-4/29/2013 (Hunter Valley, Australia): Consistent with previous tasting in December last year. Straw, light smoke and hay on the nose and it has already taken on some waxy notes. Youthful and intense on the palate with good length and texture. Give it time.
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3/2/2013 - deanmillson wrote: 91 Points
My first hunter semillon, been looking forward to trying something like this - even though it's very young. Lovely bright and clear light golden colour. Lemon and grassy notes on the nose. Light bodied, crisp lemon, a little grapefruit as well with crunchy acidity. A very long acid finish should hold this in stead for a long long time.
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1/5/2013 - graemeg wrote:
Hunter Wineries (1) - Mt PLeasant & McDonald Rd: {screwcap, 11.5%, A$60} Developing nose (and palate) of wax, lanolin and hay. Medium-high acidity disguises the richness of the flavours. Medium bodied and dry. Somewhat developed palate; flavor coats all the tongue. Finishes long and fresh still. Has years ahead of it; another 8-10 til peak.
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12/14/2012 - CamWheeler wrote: 91 Points
Christmas and End of Year Tasting: Smoke and grass on the nose with a little bit of wax. Very youthful on the palate but it has some decent character to it and good length. Needs some more time to show its best.
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6/21/2012 - chatters wrote:
Mount Pleasant Wines Member Tasting (Coast Restaurant): new release of this wine. It is still very hard and there is a slight spritz in the bottle, presumably from carbon dioxide to keep it fresh. needs a lot more time
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2/17/2012 - graemeg wrote:
2012 Sydney Royal Wine Show - Exhibitor's Tasting (Olympic Park, Homebush): Silver medal. {screwcap} Doesn’t Hunter semillon taste distinctive after all these rieslings? Clean straw, lemon & grass aromas. A light-bodied, crunchily-acidic, cleanly textured wine, still thoroughly primary at five years old; dry, naturally, and with a medium-length finish. Expect it to put on weight in all departments as the years pass. Top effort.
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