Bimbadgen 2022 Olea Late Harvest Semillon

Description

A perfect dessert style wine with sweet fruit and balanced acidity so no cloying sweetness on the finish. Bright pale straw in colour with concentrated lemon, crunchy apple and a delicately intertwined honeyed character. Fresh and lively with a coating of concentrated lemons with citrus pith and apple crunch acidity. There’s a lingering fruit sweetness on the clean and refreshing finish.

Wine Details

• Vintage 2022
• Type Dessert Wine
• Variety Semillon
• Volume 375ml
• Alcohol Volume 9%
• Acidity

  10.5g/L

• Maturation

  N/A

• Closure ScrewCap
• Bottling Date

  30th March 2022

• Harvest Date

  5th February 2022

• Background

  Upper Hunter Valley, NSW

• Vintage Notes

  A really fun wine to make and watch evolve during ferment. This wine will work beautifully with cheese plate and also as a palate cleanser. The key in this wine if fresh acidity to finish, so you are not left with cloying sweetness. Enjoy! Richard Done, Winemaker

• Tasting Notes

  Late picked Semillon, dehydrating of the berry to concentrate sugar & flavour. Crushed & pressed, juice fined and cold settled before fermentation A slow cool ferment with specifically selected yeast for dessert wine. Ferment stopped early to retain sweetness and low alcohol. Fined, filtered & bottled soon after to retain freshness.

• Colour

  Bright pale straw

• Bouquet

  Concentrated lemon, crunchy apple & delicately intwined honeyed character. Fresh & lively.

• Palate

  Long & lengthy coating of concentrated lemons, fresh pith and apple crunch acidity. Lingering fruit sweetness coating your palate, with a clean & refreshing finish

• Peak Drinking / Cellaring Potential

  1-3 years