Charlotte Dalton 'Love You Love Me' Sémillon 2017, Adelaide Hills, Australia

REGION 
Adelaide Hills, South Australia, Australia

 

VARIETAL 
Sémillon

 

TASTING NOTES

I have re released this with 6 years bottle age. It is drinking beautifully, earned itself a silver in the royal Adelaide Wine Show last year and some good reviews. Fermented in barrel and has spent extended time on lees. She has been stirred often right through maturation building a lovely mid palate to complement the lovely tight and lengthy finish. She is really showing her lovely full solids ferment. She is playful, joyful and a little bit naughty. When my 3 brothers and I were little children, my amazing and dearly missed mother, used to tuck us into bed at night and say "love you, love me - love me, love you."

 

94pts - Wine Enthusiast

"Don't let the playful label fool you. This is an expertly crafted wine from an experienced winemaker Charlotte Hardy (Dalton is her middle name). This pale-hued Semillon is delicate yet focused, complex yet approachable. It changes in the glass from wild herbs and flowers, red apple skins and minerals to something more honeyed, flinty and waxy. The palate is textural, unforced and likely to sing alongside food."

 

93pts - James Suckling

"Love you.... shows dried apple, pear and hints of flower blossom. Full body, tight and phenolic. Floral. Fun."