Mount Pleasant Lovedale Semillon 2021
Mount Pleasant Lovedale Semillon 2021
$100, 11% alcohol, screwcap, Mount Pleasant.
From a vineyard planted by Maurice O’Shea on the Hunter Valley floor in 1946 – as soon as the war ended. If you want more of a run-up to this wine, read [The Vineyard Maurice O'Shea Planted, Reborn in the Glass].
O’Shea wore thick glasses. If he tasted this wine he’d, at the very least, put them down, and might even throw them away.
There’s silk to this wine but it’s the intensity, the length, the smash of shells, the crush of citrus, the way wax lines the palate and then lays out leaves and juice and brine and herb notes in formation and in full view as if nothing in this wine is for hiding and everything in it is for certain. It’s a wine with a life and a force and a future, guaranteed. It’s five years old but it’s only just recently shed the callipers of infancy and started in on its run. There’ll be no stopping it.
97 points – Campbell Mattinson.
