Gundog Estate The Chase Semillon 2023

  • 93
  • $35
  • Drink by: 2023-2033

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This is, if you will excuse the suggestion, the big dog from the Gundog range. The grapes come from old vines from the Brycefield vineyard and the Tinkler’s School Block vineyard in Pokolbin. A cool fermentation followed by racking and then a couple of months maturation in tank. A dry style with just 11% alcohol, expect this to be a long ager. Pale straw in colour, the nose offers citrus and spices. Clean and fresh, there is balance and length here, with the intensity maintained throughout. Grapefruit notes emerge as well plus a tiny hint of lanolin. Very young at the moment, but certainly approachable. Thanks to good acidity and a lingering finish, feel free to enjoy any time over the next six to ten years.

Ken Gargett
Contributor at Winepilot

Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.

Wine writer and critic
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Ken Gargett
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Variety: White Wine, Semillon
Categories: Drinks, Australian Wines