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  • Country ranking ?

    352
  • Producer ranking ?

    21
  • Decanting time

    45min
  • When to drink

    now to 2035
  • Food Pairing

    salmon with a mild butter sauce

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JANE FAULKNER, JAMES HALLIDAY WINE COMPANION

95 Points - The extra few years in bottle add another complex layer, a richness that still has the precise, lemon zesty acidity in tow. There's a herbal edge, fresh pine needles and lime curd tart. In a good place but plenty of life ahead of it. To 2025. 

JAMES HALLIDAY 

95 Points & Outstanding - lemon juice and lemon curd flavours follow logically from the bouquet, lemony acidity lingering long in the mouth after the wine is swallowed. 

NICK STOCK, GOOD WINE GUIDE 2013

95 Points - A great result in the 2012 vintage, this has the trademark Tyrrell's class and concentration, mixing power with restraint. There's plenty of lime and white nectarine fruit on offer here, with a really lovely lean yet juicy palate, great acidity and drive. Terrific.

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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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Wine Information

VINEYARD – Two of the best blocks of semillon which have light, sandy, well drained soils. Vines planted on their own roots and dry grown. The oldest material being planted in 1923.

SOIL – Alluvial sandy loam

VINTAGE CONDITIONS – A late spring which lead into cooler conditions throughout November and early December with some rain. This lead up left us with above average crop levels and the top vineyards all went through a long, cool ripening period.

YIELD – 3.2 tonnes per acre

DATE PICKED – 13 & 16 February 2012

WINEMAKER’S NOTES –The grapes were hand picked then, after a relatively cool fermentation, the wine spent minimal time on yeast lees before being bottled early to maintain its freshness. No oak fermentation or maturation.

WINE ANALYSIS – Alc 10.5% pH 3.02 TA 7.58g/L

DATE BOTTLED – 2 & 3 July 2012

TASTING NOTES – Classic Hunter semillon vintage, the nose is quite restrained with a hint of lime citrus character. A powerful palate that is long and re ned with a core of juicy citrus fruit and an acid pro le which gives the wine its impeccable length. As usual, a young Vat 1 with great balance that is built for a long life in the cellar. 

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Vintage 2012

Lower-than-average yields in Australia, as across much of Europe. This was blamed on high winds, drought and low fruitfulness resulting from the poor 2011 vintage. Quality, however, was much better than in the exceptionally damp 2011, with South Australia avoiding some of the weather extremes experienced by other states. Strong varietal typicality is a commonly cited feature of the 2012 crop.

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Origin

Hunter Valley, New South Wales

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