Print this Wine         1996 Elderton Semillon   NURIOOTPA, BAROSSA VALLEY                 January Release   Semillon       Semillon is used extensively throughout Australia. It traditionally has been the mainstay white grape variety alongside Shiraz for red. The two varieties both excel in the same climatic zones and it is appropriate that Semillon is the supreme white grape in the warm Barossa Valley. The Ashmeads' has crafted a superb wine from Semillon where he highlights the varietal c haracteristics and lifts them to a new plane with the modern and un-traditional addition of retrained new oak. On the bouquet the fruit and vegetable flavors are rich and ripe. There is a little bit of stone fruit and pears but an overriding herbal element, notably straw and tarragon. Underpinning these flavors is sweet vanilla from highly toasted new oak barrels. Here is a very complex white wine. The palate is very bit as rich and luscious as promised by the bouquet. The fruit and herbal characters are clearly there, and the oak flavors are just as obvious. The wine is young and will take a little time for these flavors to fully merge. The wine exhibits plenty of tingling acidity, which will help preserve the wine as it develops over the next 4-6 years. Shellfish, particularly prawns, crabs and scallops would be very suitable partners for this wine. They all have inherent sweet flavors and accept a little flavoring assistance from herbs and spice in their preparation, marrying well with the wines herbal varietal character and sweetness of fruit and oak.

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