Brokenwood Stanleigh Park Vineyard Hunter Valley Semillon 2022
- 93
- $66
- Drink by: 2024-2040
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Classic Hunter Valley Semillon – made with minimal intervention and bottled as a time capsule without any oak influence. The fragrance is beautifully blossomy with elderflower and jasmine. There’s the lemon zest and lime leaf with a lick of river-pebble minerality. In the mouth it is pristine and pure with a remarkable silky, slippery texture, especially given the low ABV (11%). Although the youthful citrus flavours dominate, the quality of the site is evident in the concentration and hints of complexity at such a young age – there’s chamomile, crisp honeydew melon and a whisper of wildflower honey. Excellent length rounds up the cellar-worthy promise.
Nicole loves wine. So much so that she gave up a successful career in Pharmacy, perfected her spitting technique, and moved from sunny Queensland to the wine-drenched laneways of Melbourne. Stints in hospitality, wineries, retail, sales and marketing filled the next few years while Nicole built her knowledge and searched for the right path. She completed the Wine and Spirits Education Trust (WSET) Diploma in 2016 and became a certified WSET Educator the following year. She now juggles a number of roles including teaching people about wine, curating wines lists for restaurants and bars, judging in Australian wine shows and, of course, writing. In 2016 she won the Negociants Working With Wine writing award and has since contributed to Gourmet Traveller WINE, Halliday Wine Companion Magazine and Nourish Magazine.
