Single Vineyard Range
2024 Latara Vineyard Semillon
Variety: 100% Semillon
Vineyard: Keith Tulloch Latara Vineyard
Region: Pokolbin, Hunter Valley
Vine age: Vines planted in 1978
Tasting Notes
The Latara Vineyard is 4.5kms from the cellar door on the corner of Deasys & McDonalds Roads in Central Pokolbin, planted in 1978. This vineyard is owned by Keith, Amanda and family operated by Keith Tulloch Wine. Whilst many Hunter Valley Semillon vineyards are established on light sandy alluvial soils, this vineyard sits on dark cracking clay soils with a gentle East-West aspect. These soils make a powerful Semillon expression with body and frame that is more luscious and approachable, particularly as a young wine.
Richer, rounder Semillon aromas of lisbon-lemon and kafir lime-leaf are dominant at first, settling with air to allow the finer and sweeter signatures of meyer lemon and green-to-orange mandarin.
Flavours are exotic too, with layers of yellow and green citrus fruit giving mouth-filling tangy energy, with a classic hint of pithy dryness at the finish.
Uber-juicy and gentle, this is a delicious and opulent Semillon for immediate enjoyment but will cellar effortlessly for a decade for the patient.
93 points Halliday Wine Companion 93 points The Real Review
Drink: Now - 2036.
120 dozen made.
Technical Data
Alc 11.2%
pH 3.01
TA 6.6
