David McWilliam Mistletoe Reserve Semillon 2025
AU$40, 11% alcohol, screwcap, Hunter Valley.
This is so crisp and vibrant it feels fresh off the vine. It’s an impeccably-structured wine, with quite incredible length through the finish. It tastes of yuzu, lemon blossom, crushed fennel and wax, with a gentle (dry) grassy aspect adding a bit extra. At this stage of its life it tastes both delicate and light, in a good way, but it will build appreciably as it ages.
94 points – Campbell Mattinson.
Campbell Mattinson
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.
