100 Year Old Vines Semillon 2025
$80.00 / bottle
WINEMAKING
100 Year Old Vines Semillon 2025: Hand-picked and basket pressed, this carefully crafted wine is matured for seven months in the finest seasoned French oak puncheons, enhancing aroma, whilst building flavour complexity, depth and length. Although approachable in its youth, this exceptional Barossa Semillon has considerable breadth and length of flavour and can cellar for up to twenty years.
Many priceless old vine Semillon vineyards are under threat in the Barossa, however, in making this win,e we have preserved an important part of the Barossa’s heritage. The grapes for this wine are from the sandy loam soils of a 100-year-old vineyard on the creek beds of Rowland Flat. The low-yielding ‘Centenarian’ vines, noted for their intensity of flavour, were planted more than a century ago, around the time construction of the Château itself began.
TASTING NOTES
Honey, Lemon, Grapefruit and hints of pineapple on the nose. Lively, fresh citrus and stonefruit on the fleshy palate with clean, fresh acidity on a long lingering finish. A seamless wine of fine acid structure and intense varietal flavours driving the length on the palate.
Awards:
96 Points – Ray Jordan
94 Points – Ken Gargett, Wine Pilot
92 Points – Melissa Moore, The Real Review
SUITABLE FOR VEGANS AND VEGETARIANS
Reviews
96 Points
Ray Jordan, Wine Pilot
As you might expect from these old vines, this is a limited edition that really does highlight the wondrous virtues of semillon in the Barossa. After handpicking and basket pressing, it's spent about seven months in seasoned puncheons. So you've got complexity and palate depth in abundance. Aromas of slightly nutty, lemon-scented notes. And a palate that has a certain creaminess about it, but then the fine acidity and that cutting lemony edge harness it and focus through to its long finish. It's a wine that's been built to last, and yet it's hard to put down now. Terrific wine. Cellar 18 years
94 Points
Ken Gargett, Wine Pilot
Barossa Semillon from vines in excess of one hundred years of age would be worth a look purely for the curiosity factor. Fortunately, these are wines of exceptional quality, as well. Maturation is in older French oak puncheons for a period of seven months. The vineyard is situated in the Vine Vale sub-region of the Barossa. Beautifully packaged, there are 3,624 bottles produced.
Lemon yellow in hue, this is a slightly edgy style, which is most attractive and offers an appealingly creamy texture. The nose gives us notes of melons, lemon curd, spices and a touch of citrus. There is serious intensity running the full length, along with juicy acidity. The wine has drive and yet it retains its balance throughout. A lingering finish ties things together. Drink over the next eight to ten years.
92 Points
Melissa Moore, The Real Review
Pale gold, showing flinty reduction, grapefruit peel and apricot blossom over notes of crushed rock and lightly toasted cedar oak. Dry and broad on the palate, with citrus and stone-fruit threaded through creaminess and oak spice. Rounded yet focused, lifted by lively acidity, and finishing lightly phenolic. 2026-2036
