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  • Country ranking ?

    211
  • Producer ranking ?

    9
  • Decanting time

    2h
  • When to drink

    2020-2035

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The Story

Our flagship semillon and one of Australia's most awarded white wines. Vat 1 Hunter Semillon epitomised the benefits of patient bottle ageing that transforms this unoaked wine into a masterpiece. First produced in 1963, the Vat 1 is fermented in temperature controlled stainless steel tanks before it quietly spends a few years 'resting' in bottles.

It is a classic Hunter Valley semillon showing a tightly structured palate with considerable length and breadth of citrus fruit flavours. This wine is only just beginning to evolve and show a hint of toasty, bottle aged complexity. An iconic Australian wine from what is a classic vintage for Hunter Valley semillon.

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Screwcap. This was the last vintage where it was bottled under both screwcap and cork.
Pale gold. Very complex, gently honeyed – only just starting to show that character – but still has lots of pure citrus on the nose. Fine lime citrus palate. Very long and persistent and quite a lot of weight on the palate for 10.8% – perhaps better described as intensity than weight. Typically no malolactic. Intensely fresh.

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Origin

Hunter Valley, New South Wales

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