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Brokenwood Semillon 2011
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As always, a beautiful colour with luminous greens. Distinctive Hunter lemongrass/straw aromas as a young wine. Sweet fruit flavours initially on the palate indicating perfect ripeness. Excellent acid structure, long flavours of lime and apple blossom. Perfect in its youth and a wine that will bottle age gracefully.
Harvesting all by hand. The fruit was crushed, chilled and pressed immediately. Neutral yeasts were used for the fermentation, bottled in July. No oak and no malolactic ferment, only stainless steel.
Contrary to most thinking the Hunter Valley had a perfect lead up to the 2011 vintage. The 2010 calendar year ended at just over 900mm, up on the 90 year average of 800mm, with the wettest month being November at 156mm. Then the Valley had a mild and dry December and early January 2011 followed suit with only one day above 40C on the 2nd January. The wet November did cause some disease pressure but the vineyard guys soon got on top of it and then we had the opposite with sun burn on the 2nd. Fruit thinning was carried out on all Brokenwood blocks.
Further hot weather struck around Australia Day and there was some leaf burn. In a bizarre twist, the Hunter Valley was irrigating madly while most of Australia was under water. All the Semillon was picked by early February.
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WBW Rating: 92/100
Closure: stelvin
Region: Hunter Valley NSW |
Winemaker: Ian Riggs
Drink now until: 2016
Alc/Vol: 11 %
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