Tyrrell's - Vat 1 Sémillon 2017 (750ml)

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Producer	Tyrrell's
Country	Australia
Region	New South Wales
Subregion	Hunter Valley
Varietal	Sémillon
Vintage	2017
Sku	108571
Size	750ml
ABV	13.00%

 

Winemaker Notes

With lifted lime citrus aromas the palate is seamless, showing the typical powerful fruit core which is balanced by the wine's texture and soft acid profile. This wine shows a length of flavor only produced from great vineyards.

Professional Ratings

97Australian Wine Companion
While I enjoy the open-knit approaches to crafting semillon across the region, this remains the bulletproof benchmark. Even here, there have been endeavours toward greater accessibility, with some lees inflection. A meld of the finest dry-grown plots conferring a carapace of talc, sandy mineral and effusive acidity that is, to be frank, indomitable. Descriptives, ineffable. The length, justifiable. Bury this.
97Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2017 Vat 1 Semillon represents an excellent Semillon vintage in the Hunter Valley, and it is here that we start to see the majesty of aged Semillon begin to unfold. Sun-drenched hay, caper brine, wisps of black tea, crushed shells, a whiff of Szechuan peppercorn, lemongrass, green apples and cold buttered toast. In the mouth, the wine is texturally silky (with a weighty fall, like heavy gauge silk) and lingering. It moves with momentum rather than outright speed (like watching a whale shark swim: they might move slowly, but they swim fast), and it has a clarity and freshness in the mouth that is astounding. This is a super wine, an evocative wine, an imaginative wine. It's a wine on the up, with miles to go before it sleeps...
Rating: 97+
95Wine Enthusiast
2017 was hailed as a great vintage in the Hunter Valley, but it was also hot and dry, so this is a richer, more advanced bottling than the previous vintage. Lucid and concentrated, it's unmistakably Hunter Sem, with its woolly, beeswax, lemon pith and lamp oil appeal. A mineral, flinty note adds interest. There's a laser-like line of acidity on the slippery palate and a flavor richness that flows to the long finish.
95James Suckling
A later-released iteration, dubbed 'Winemaker's Selection'. A wondrous nose of buttered milk toast, a lick of lime brulee, nashi pear, wet pebble stone and yellow plum. A looser knit, warmer expression. Lightweight analytically, but more plump and medium-bodied of feel, nigh on hitting its optimal straps. A sublime, warmer vintage expression in the prime of its life.