Brokenwood ILR Reserve Semillon 2019
- 96
- $120
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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Let’s go back to the source. The Trevena Vineyard on Hermitage Road was planted in 1926. The 2019 vintage was a warm, dry year — in January, when this wine was picked, there were only three days under 30 degrees. So, it has some generosity, while retaining the freshness and vibrancy of the low alcohol and precise acidity that make it such a compelling wine. Lemony, zesty characters are only just beginning to show the faintest hint of development, and there’s still plenty of time to go. A thoroughly beautiful example of Hunter Semillon that captures everything you want in this sometimes underrated variety.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
