Brokenwood

ILR Reserve Hunter Valley Sémillon 2017

9.3

No formal notes. Quite rich , grassy and waxy but still lots of lime and lemon character . Quite taught , mostly lean lime and lemon , beeswax character fruit on the palate . Long and detailed on the finish with a toasty touch . Great intensity . Needs time , still quite primary , I would expect this will improve over the next 10-15 years and last well a further 10 @ Brokenwood Winery , Hunter Valley — 3 months ago

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Hunter Valley Shiraz 2017

Patrick Peters

8.9

Elegant and fruit forward, can taste the earth it’s grown in. Beautiful wine and great on day two. — 6 months ago

Mount Pleasant Wines

Rosehill Limited Release Hunter Valley Shiraz 2006

Bob McDonald

9.0

See several previous tasting notes for this wine. This was made back in the day when Hunter Valley reds had strayed from their medium bodied, savoury, sweaty saddle origins to being riper and more full bodied like a South Australian Red. This was declared in a speech by Chief Winemaker at the time, Jim Chatto, at a dinner I attended at the winery. Also plenty of oak still evident at 15 years of age. I prefer the original Hunter Valley style which Mount Pleasant has wisely reverted to utilising the wonderful old vine fruit at its disposal. Tasted again 35 weeks later on 26th March 2022. Nothing to add to the note here. A Hunter Valley wine trying to look like a South Australian wine back in 2006 with ripe fruit and oak. Thankfully HV reds have returned to the medium weight savoury long living style that Maurice O’Shea made in the 1950’s. — 3 years ago

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Hunter's Wines

Jane Hunter Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2018

Rebecca Nadel

9.6

Lemon bomb! — 5 years ago

Brokenwood

Oakey Creek Sémillon 2009

Lyn Farmer

9.1

Medium lemon color with pronounced aromas of fresh toast, lemon curd, straw, blossom and beeswax. High acidity with toast, beery malt, lemon and a hint of coconut continuing on the long finish. A striking, unique wine that would be terrific with grilled fish, smoked fish, lobster and scallops. With this much age it’s bit robust for oysters, but younger, more lemony, versions would be beautiful with bivalves — 6 years ago

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Single Vineyard HVD Hunter Sémillon 2007

Ceccherini Cristiano

9.4

Delicious 😋 — 7 years ago

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Silkman

Hunter Valley Sémillon 2011

Andrew Cullimore

9.0

Medium gold green colour . Green and grassy on the nose , blackcurrant leaf, after a while some lemon confit notes and beeswax. On the palate nice round , lemon , white peach , greengage notes , medium bodied , you wouldn’t guess it had only 11% alcohol . Medium high balanced acidity , slightly toasty note on the decent length finish . This is drinking well now , though absolutely no rush , now and over the next 10 years ? — 3 months ago

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Vat 47 Hunter Chardonnay 2018

Makoto Someya

9.1

Oak, lime like herb in aroma. Rich, citrus, white flowers. Citrus, comfortable acidity. Each factor in the taste is showing the feature clearly. From Hunter valley which is an initial place for wine in Australia. Vat 47 Hunter Chardonnay Tyrrell’s 2018 @7546, Toscany JH, 231028-231111 — 7 months ago

De Iuliis

Aged Release Sémillon

Mieke S

9.0

Anniversary wine. — 3 years ago

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Vat 47 Hunter River Pinot Chardonnay 2015

Lyn Farmer

9.5

What a stunning wine- bright medium lemon, crisp acidity and a glorious nose of apple, lemon, flint, smoke and just a hint of herbs. Beautiful balance and a long finish - this is a marvelously elegant triumph of wine making. Fabulous with food or on its own. Dazzling — 5 years ago

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Reserve HVD Hunter Valley Sémillon 1999

Ceccherini Cristiano

9.6

So perfect
You have the fruit, the mineral (my God the searing, tingling mineral of this wine 🙏), the complexity of a developed Meursault(🙃), the length of a great wine and the enjoyment you rarely find in any of your activities
Definitely at peak, but it might stay in this stage for a while
No signs of decay 🔝🔝🔝🔝 — 5 years ago

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