2023 Schulz Home Vineyard Semillon
($23.80 Wine Club price)
The Semillon is light straw tinged with green. Extraordinarily fresh and bright in its youth. Beautiful spring nose featuring lemon and lime. The wine is light to medium bodied. A wonderful wine to enjoy over the warmer months but with enough structure to handle a few years in the cellar should you desire.
Technical Tasting Notes
2023 Schulz Home Vineyard Semillon
GROWING SEASON
The 2023 Barossa Valley vintage will be remembered as one of the latest vintages in recent memory. After a wet winter our winter rains continued well into November, it was certainly unlike any other. This meant the growing season was off to a slow start. The Barossa season from this point on was almost perfect. Warmer than the 2022 vintage, but cooler than the long term average.
A vintage that will have a split personality, but the great vineyards with the best growers truly excelled; the best wines will be up there with the best we have ever produced. Characterised by the wonderful fruit expression seen in the 2021 vintage combined with the crisp acids seen in the 2022 vintage..
TASTING NOTE
100% old vine Maderia Clone Semillon grown in Ebenezer in the Northern Barossa. Handpicked, hand sorted, de-stemmed, the 2023 Schulz Home Vineyard Semillon is made in the traditional (classic) barossa style, fermented in neutral vessels.
The Semillon is light straw tinged with green. Extraordinarily fresh and bright in its youth. Beautiful spring nose featuring Lemon, musk and spring flowers. The wine is light, very clean and fresh. A wonderful wine to enjoy over the warmer months but for those with good cellaring conditions this is a wine that will improve for many years.
Region/Sub Region: 100% Barossa Valley/Ebenezer
Grape Variety: 100% Semillon
Alcohol: 12.0%
Production: 1200 bottles
Cellaring: 10 years plus
Serve: This wine will match well with a variety of seafood and salad dishes in its youth before developing secondary characters after 3-4 years and providing a perfect match for more robust Fish, Chicken and Pork based dishes with age.
Winemaker: Jo Irvine
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Reviews
2023 Schulz Home Vineyard Semillon
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2022 Schulz Home Vineyard Semillon
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2021 Schulz Home Vineyard Semillon
2023 James Halliday Wine Companion (Dave Brookes)
91 Points - Maderia-clone semillon from the Schulz vineyard in Ebenezer, made by Christa Deans. Pithy lemon and citrus fruits with a splash of freshly squeezed lime, joined by hints of soft spice, clotted cream, lemongrass and lemon curd. A grassy note appears on the palate, which is savoury and stony at its core, with ample acid drive and a long, dry lemony finish.
2020 Barossa Valley Semillon
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2018 Barossa Valley Semillon
2020 Wine Companion (James Halliday)
92 Points - This is part of a move to earlier picking, resulting in fresher wines that have less alcohol, but not sacrificing their varietal character. Made by Christa Deans, who has captured the lemony/lemon zest Barossa semillon can have.
Drink by: 2023
2017 Barossa Valley Semillon
QWine (www.qwinereviews.com)
88 Points - Call me daft, but Barossa Semillon is something I still find hard to warm to. It lacks that get up and vibe which can be seen in other parts of the country.
This comes from Ebenezer in the Northern Barossa. Stewed Apple, some lemon rind and preserved lemon cut in. There's almost a nuttiness about it. It feels a little bogged down and not so playful.
I'd be interested to see how it turns out with some age.
