Print this Wine         1998 Brokenwood Semillon   LOWER HUNTER VALLEY                 January Release   Semillon       The Hunter Valley has one great white wine variety. Despite the rush towards Chardonnay in the 1980s, Semillon, has always been the Hunter’s finest variety. The typical style is one that is shy in youth but blossoms after 5 years bottle age. Brokenwood broke all the rules when they first produced Hunter Valley Semillon in the 1980s. For the first time there was a Semillon with immediate appeal and drinkability. This style has continued to be extremely successful. Recent vintages have shown Iain Riggs and his team at Brokenwood to be as vigilant as ever. The 1998 reflects not only skill in the winery but excellent growing conditions. Pale lemon in color with a hint of green around the rim, this wine looks as youthful as it is. The aroma offers a dash of citrus fruit, lemon and grapefruit, combined with some grass and fresh hay, typical of young , fully ripe Semillon. There is no oak or malo-lactic characters, just a pure expression of fruit. The wine has ample weight on the palate and the texture is slightly tingling with refreshing acid, with the wine itself still just shrugging off the effects of the fermentation, completed only in the past few months. This style is so easy to drink now, but the wine will develop other characters with bottle age, and become a completely different but equally as appealing drink. Fresh food, in fact fresh seafood is all this wine requires. Oysters, scallops, prawns are the most immediately appealing selections. As long as the seafood is not long from the sea and it hasn’t been overdressed, over-sauced and most importantly overcooked, it would be a superb accompaniment to this racy young wine.

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