Mount Pleasant Estate Grown Hunter Valley Semillon 2022
Mount Pleasant Estate Grown Hunter Valley Semillon
Region: Hunter Valley New South Wales, Australia
Vintage: 2022
Bottle size: 75cl
Grape: Semillon
ABV: 11%
The wine is pale straw yellow in colour. The nose shows intense aromas of citrus and lemongrass, with a hint of dried herbs. The palate expresses concentrated flavours of lemon and lime with a beautiful acidity which drives toward the long finish.
The vineyards date back to 1880, planted by Charles King and worked on by legendary winemaker and Mount Pleasant founder, Maurice O’Shea. The fruit for the Estate Grown Semillon is sourced entirely from the Mount Pleasant vineyards. It is also released in its infancy to preserve the freshness and vitality that is Hunter Valley Semillon. The grapes are hand-picked and fermented before bottling within three months of production, this wine showcases all that is unique about Hunter Valley Semillon.
Once at the winery, the Semillon was destemmed and pressed off skins to stainless steel tank. Here the juice was cold settled before being racked off. The must was inoculated with a specific neutral yeast strain chosen to highlight the vineyard's specific flavours, and fermentation was conducted at cold temperatures to retain the delicate aromas. Following fermentation, the wines were settled, blended, and gently fined before being filtered to bottle.
Mount Pleasant was founded in 1921 by legendary winemaker Maurice O’Shea, widely recognised as an industry pioneer and the father of modern Australian winemaking. According to James Halliday, who named Mount Pleasant 3rd in the inaugural 100 Top Wineries of Australia in 2023, “there’s an argument to say that Mount Pleasant is Australia’s most important wine estate. It’s certainly ground zero of fine Australian table wine, thanks to the legendary exploits of its founding winemaker, Maurice O’Shea, from the 1920s onwards. But successive winemakers, from Phil Ryan to Jim Chatto to Adrian Sparks, have inched the wines of this estate to higher and higher levels, to the point where now a whole series of its current-release wines are classics in the making
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