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Wine & Spirits
Sunny golden-wheat scents introduce this heady semillon, glowing with lush ginger- and apple-scented fruit and refreshing acidity that gives it the crunch of water chestnuts. It’s a big, bold white to serve next to Cantonese fish fillets with ginger and garlic.
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Wine Enthusiast
This wine showcases typical varietal characters of waxy lemon, grapefruit rind, nettles and white pepper, as well as lifted acidity and textural weight. It feels both creamy and powdery.
Sémillon has the power to create wines with considerable structure, depth and length that will improve for several decades. It is the perfect partner to the vivdly aromatic Sauvignon Blanc. Sémillon especially shines in the Bordeaux region of Sauternes, which produces some of the world’s greatest sweet wines. Somm Secret—Sémillon was so common in South Africa in the 1820s, covering 93% of the country’s vineyard area, it was simply referred to as Wyndruif, or “wine grape.”
Home to some of Australia’s most elegant and long-lived red and white wines, Margaret River is situated in the farthest reaches of Western Australia. Relatively warm and dry, the region is cooled by breezes from the Indian Ocean. Margaret River takes some inspiration from Bordeaux, producing top-quality Cabernet Sauvignons and Bordeaux Blends with firm structure, mouthwatering acidity, balanced alcohol and notes of herbs and spice. For white wines, refreshing blends of Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon as well as complex, age-worthy Chardonnays are regional specialties.