Tesco, Finest Dessert Semillon, Riverina, South Eastern Australia 2019

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Tasted by: Amy Wislocki
(at Menier Penthouse, London SE1, 22 May 2024)
Drinking Window: 2024 - 2027
This is one of the best value dessert wines on the high street – it would be utterly delicious served chilled with a juicy peach or nectarine, or an apricot tart. The own-label wine is made by De Bortoli, the producer of Australia's most famous and awarded sweet wine, Noble One. It's made in the same, botrytised style, with similar flavours of orange marmalade, apricot jam, lemon sherbert, candied peel and barley sugar. Fully sweet, it nevertheless dances on the palate, despite the residual sugar, the racy acidity keeping it fresh and moreish.
Tesco, Finest Dessert Semillon, Riverina, South Eastern Australia 2019
Producer
Tesco
Brand
Finest Dessert Semillon
Vintage
2019
Wine Type
Still
Colour
White
Country
Australia
Region
New South Wales
Appellation
Riverina
Sweetness
Sweet
Closure
Screwcap
Alcohol
9.50%
Body
Medium
Grapes
100% Sémillon