An Approach to Relaxation Nichon Semillon 2019
$44, 12.5% alcohol, cork, Barossa Valley.
Fully mature and drinking beautifully. This is textbook in the best of ways. Intense honey, preserved lemon, orange blossom and cardamom characters come with a waxy, textural sheen and keen, mouthwatering acidity. It’s rich, it’s refreshing, it’s complex and it’s well sustained – not to mention that it’s just plain delicious. 94 points.
Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
