Past Accolades and Awards:

Tony Love, Taste: 4 glasses
From Brokenwood's home territory in the Hunter, which had a cracker of a vintage this year, comes this drink-now style of semillon that shows a richer and fuller presence, though not an ounce of flab, so it's still wonderfully floral and fresh to start, showing expressive fruit and a grounded, minerally under-layer.

James Halliday: 94
...vivid mid-palate, with citrus to the fore, and background touches of stone fruits, the zesty acidity cleanses the finish and guarantees a long life.

Huon Hooke: 90
Ranked 8 of 21 2013 Sémillon tasted from Lower Hunter
Light yellow colour. Lightly toasty, lemony aromas, lemon pith, the straw and toasty aromas giving away the first glimpse of bottle-age. Delicate, restrained, soft and finely textured. Frisky acidity in balance. Lovely ready drinking wine.

Mike Bennie: 93
So racy and fine, tinny almost but not without charm, just slotted into a precise, crisp frame and given a shed load of energy from nervous acidity and very pure, fine citrus fruit character. Thread through the eye of a needle and utterly delicious in its own, frisky, fine boned way. So tense, so much vitality, so good.

Tyson Stelzer: 92
A mesmerising paradox: Moreish from day one and it can live for thirty years, as a recent vertical proved! The 2011 is clean and even, with precise lemon juice and cut grass lingering fine and long; a delicate flick of ripeness provides approachability on the finish. A confident vintage for this label.