Tyrrell's Belford Single Vineyard Semillon 2023

Tyrrell's Belford Single Vineyard Semillon 2023"Belford is a great vineyard." Gary Walsh The Belford Vineyard is the northern most of the Tyrrells Hunter Valley vineyards and was planted with Semillon vines in 1933. The vineyard has been leased by Tyrrell's since the early 1980s. The vineyard sits on very fine, deep alluvial sand which imparts a fuller, almost honeyed flavour to the wine. "Lovely mid palate and presence here, almost into (light) Chardonnay weight in a way, delivers flavour in a

They subsequently acquired the adjoining 106 acres from the Baillieu family in the '60s

but he had a strong interest in table wines and on the way home he ducked up to Bordeaux for a few days

with steamed rice

The palate is medium weight but with such intensity and concentration

The wine has a delightful nose with lots of berries and a touch of liquorice

It tastes of grapefruit and tangy

coiling on rails of minerality before powering across the palate

cellaring well over the next 10 to 15 years

as though time is needed

Many people do not know that the house almost went bankrupt in 1946

The wine is vinified in an open stainless steel fermenter with regular plunging to extract colour and flavour

cool-climate red wines