McGuigan Bin 9000 Semillon 2016

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of McGuigan Bin 9000 Semillon 2016.

McGuigan Bin 9000 Semillon 2016
$40, 11% alcohol, screwcap, Hunter Valley.

An excellent wine, at perfect maturity, as a classic region-variety combination, for $40. That’s the proposition. This wine is textured and flavoured and elongated, its toast, lemon, honey, and preserved citrus characters infused lightly with aromatic herbs. In other words, it’s quite perfect. It has intensity in all the right areas, and charm as an overlay. It’s excellent from every angle. 94 points.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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