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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...
Wine Description
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 considerab...
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 rip...
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.