Winemaker Notes
The wine undergoes full MLF. Unfined and unfiltered. Sulphured prior to bottling. No other adds.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Just released, this has built some richness in bottle since last tasting in 2020, showing biscuit, spice and praline. It really sits clearly aside from the Love You Love Me bottling from the same vintage. Has the same distinctive, semillon lemon-grass and chamomile aromas, a silky palate and seamless build. Drink or hold. Screw cap.
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Wine Enthusiast
From one of South Australia's talented small batch producers, this medium gold-hued Semillon sees time on full lees in barrel. It's simultaneously rich and refreshing, with a rush of heady aromas of raw wildflower honey, apple and pear flesh, citrus and beeswax. The palate is round, waxy-textured and concentrated, lifted by gorgeously mouthwatering acidity that carries the orchard fruit, waxy citrus and gingery spice to a lengthy finish. A wine bursting with personality, charm and class.
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.”
A narrow band of hills and valleys east of the city of Adelaide, the Adelaide Hills region is a diverse landscape featuring a variety of microclimates. In general it is moderate with high-altitude areas cooler and wetter compared to its warmer, lower areas.
Piccadilly Valley, the part of Adelaide Hills closest to the city, was first staked out by a grower named Brian Croser, in the 1970s for a cool spot to grow Chardonnay, then uncommon in Australia. Today a good amount of the Chardonnay goes to winemakers outside of the region.
Producers here experiment with other cool-climate loving aromatic varieties like Pinot Gris, Viognier and Riesling. Charming sparkling wine is also possible. On its north side, lower, west-facing slopes make full-bodied Shiraz.