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Tyrrell's 'Belford Vineyard' Semillon
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What a pleasure to taste a range of single vineyard wines at leisure. As far as I know the Stevens, Belford and Vat 1 Semillons are made the same way, from the same vintage, so the differences are pure terroir. The Belford vineyard is dry grown on its own root stocks, planted in 1933.
A richer more flamboyant wine (within context) offering lemon squash, squeezed citrus and a little dried herb. It’s full and round (again within context) with abundant flavour and impact, almost fat, yet supremely dry and minerally – especially on the long stony finish. A little coarser and more ribald than the Vat 1 and Stevens of the same vintage, yet none the worse for it – just same same, but different. The rating has a shade of personal stylistic preference attached, rather than that of absolute quality, and by and large it’s just splitting hairs. Excellent. Further bottle age most likely will make a monkey out of me and my ratings. 94 points - Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
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