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2017 Tyrrell 's Semillon Vat No. 1 Hunter Valley Australia 750 ml
Retail: $73 | ||
| $60 | 18% off | per bottle |
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Synonymous With Sémillon
We’d be willing to bet that no individual wine has been tasted and studied by Master Sommeliers more than Tyrrell’s Vat 1 Sémillon.
The reasons are simple: Vat 1 stands out as THE defining bottle of an important, iconic category of wine—Hunter Valley Sémillon—and for a wine with world-class complexity, depth, and nuance, it’s incredibly well-priced.
The combination is catnip for the world’s most discerning wine professionals.
Drawn from Tyrrell’s top vineyards—some now over a century old—born from grapes raised in hot, sandy, dry-farmed plots, the Vat 1 has a mineral-toned persistence that will thrill fans of glimmering white wines like bone-dry Riesling and the pinnacle of Loire Sauvignon Blanc. It’s famously long-lived, and it matures from a nervy, electric white wine in its youth to a bottle with immense gravitas.
“Tyrrell’s, the Hunter Valley, and Semillon are almost synonymous with each other,” opined leading Aussie critic James Halliday. “It is the purest example of terroir in the world,” and their 2017 is a “bulletproof benchmark.”
With fifth-generation winemaker Chris Tyrrell at the helm, this Hunter Valley Semillon represents the classic introduction to what the area can achieve with the grape. Grown on vines that date back to 1923, matured in nothing but stainless steel, and given just enough time on the lees to round out the mouthfeel, this brilliantly terroir-transparent effort leaves the winemaker no room to hide: Either you get it done in the vineyard, or you don’t—and Chris and the team knocked it out of the park.
Drink this and you’ll understand why Jancis Robinson said “Hunter Valley Semillon is one of Australia’s great gifts to the world of wine.”