Sileni Cellar Selection Sauvignon Blanc 2022
Regular price £14.95Vibrant with ripe, tropical and gooseberry fruit flavours with a zingy finish and impeccable balance.
A great aperitif or seafood wine, made for drinking young.
Country: New Zealand
Region: Marlborough
ABV: 12%
Grapes: 85% Sauvignon Blanc, 15% Semillon
Food Match: Mussels, garlic prawns
Sileni Estates: The winery is named after the Sileni who featured in Roman mythology alongside Bacchus, the God of Wine. They celebrated good wine, good food and good company. The vineyards and winery are based near Hastings, Hawke’s Bay the oldest wine region in New Zealand.
Groote Post Seasalter 2022
Regular price £17.95Wonderfully aromatic on the nose a notes of blackcurrant leaf, stone fruit and green apple together with hints of fynbos and seaweed, sea air and vanilla. Rich, layered and long on the palate with a wonderful, saline finish. An elegant, well balanced blend of Sauvignon and Semillon expressing the Darling Hills minerality and terroir.
The Seasalter is a blend of 90% Sauvignon Blanc and 10% Semillon with 30% of the Sauvignon Blanc fermented and aged for 8 months in 300 litre French Oak barrels. The remaining juice was fermented in stainless steel tanks and left on it's lees adding weight and complexity.
Country: South Africa
Region: Darling Hills
Grapes: Sauvignon Blanc, Semillon
ABV: 13%
Chateau Fayau Cadillac 2013 75ml
Regular price £19.95A great way to discover Sauternes-like sweet wines. Wonderful aromas of melon, peach and honey. The palate is well balanced, very generous with a lot of exotic fruits and apricot. The finish is as long as with a good Sauternes. Awesome value sweet white!
Country: France
Region: Cadillac, Bordeaux
Grapes: 95% Semillon, 5% Muscadelle
ABV: 13%
Pegasus Bay Semillon/Sauvignon 2019
Regular price £26.95A good dash of Semillon into this Sauvignon Blanc gives additional layers of complexity.
This traditional French blend has aromas and flavours of citrus fruit, passion-fruit and greengages, cut grass with a hint of dried herbs. The low crop levels have particularly emphasised the Semillon component in the wine, filling out the palate and giving good concentration as well as structure. It has a crisp, dry finish and a lingering after-taste on the palate.
Country: New Zealand
Region: North Canterbury
ABV: 15%
Grapes: 70% Sauvignon, 30% Semillon
Food Match: We love this wine for its complexity of aromatics and concentration of flavours on the palate. White fish with fresh asparagus or Samphire is a great pairing.
Wildeberg White 2021
Regular price £22.95Wonderfully rich and fleshy from hand harvested bushvine grown grapes in Franschhoek. Wild Yeast fermented. Beautifully poised and elegant. Excellent food wine.
Country: South Africa
Region: Franschhoek
Grapes: Field blend, but mostly Semillon
ABV: 13%
Chicken Biriyani or dishes with Cardamon.
Certified Heritage Vineyards planted in 1905.
Château Gabelot Bordeaux Blanc 2022
Regular price £13.95Delicate, pale lemon yellow colour with aromas of citrus, grass and hay. Fresh and zippy finish.
Country: France
Region: Bordeaux
ABV: 14.5%
Grapes: Sauvignon Blanc, Semillon
Entre-deux-Mers is a large wine sub-region of Bordeaux in southwestern France. Its name translates literally as "between two seas", although the seas in question are in fact rivers – the Garonne and Dordogne, which respectively form the area's southern and northern boundaries.
Chateau Violet Sauternes 2016 375ml
Regular price £15.95A delicious sweet wine from Bordeaux. Try with blue-cheeses, foie gras and of course desserts.
This wine has a beautifully espressive nose with a bouquet where candied fruit are enhanced by spices and vanilla. Concentrated apricot and peach fruit with notes of candied lemon. Long finish.
Country: France
Region: Sauternes
ABV: 13%
Grapes: 85% Semillon, 10% Sauvignon, 5% Muscadelle
Les Pins de Tirecul La Graviere Monbazillac 2021 50cl
Regular price £16.95Devine treat of a wine! Astonishingly complex and layered - a must for pudding wine fans.
Country: France
Region: Monbazillac
Grapes: Sémillon, Sauvignon blanc and Muscadelle
ABV: 12%
Organic
Brokenwood Semillon 2022
Regular price £25.95Hunter Semillon at its very best!
This wine possesses intensely flavoured, pristine fruit with a clean and zippy palate and fresh fruit flavours of sherbet, lemon, passion fruit and pineapple. Fresh cut grass notes too.
Country: Australia
Region: Hunter Valley
ABV: 12.5%
Grapes: Semillon
Reyneke Organic Sauvignon Blanc 2022
Regular price £19.9594 points Tim Atkin MW
5 Star Platter Winery
Country: South Africa
Region: Stellenbosch
Grapes: Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc
ABV: 12.5%
Organic and Biodynamic
Vegan/Vegetarian
Vergelegen Reserve Semillon 2020
Regular price £21.00The superb Sémillon grapes for this wine have been sourced from the Korhaan Vineyard, block number 11, planted in 1988. The nose shows intense citrus, white flowers, honey and spice. Stunningly focused, complex and well balanced with a crisp acidity.
Country: South Africa
Region: Stellenbosch
Grapes: Semillon
ABV: 14.5%
Vergelegen Semillon Straw Wine 2021
Regular price £17.95Vergelegen’s special dessert wine made from the Sémillon grape grown in Vergelegen’s Korhaan and Niel-Suid vineyards. This wine is only produced in certain years. Abundant ripe, tropical fruits on the nose and a marvellous acidity and freshness on the palate.
Country: South Africa
Region: Stellenbosch
Grapes: Semillon
ABV: 12%
Tyrrell's Hunter Valley Semillon 2023
Regular price £23.95A stunning example of Hunter Semillon.
Cut grass and lime zest nose with a clean and zippy palate and fresh fruit flavours of sherbet, lemon, passion fruit and lemon. Lovely long finish.
Country: Australia
Region: Hunter Valley
ABV: 11%
Grapes: Semillon
Hermanuspietersfontein Kaalvoet Meisie 2023
Regular price £17.95Kaalvoet Meisie (‘barefoot girl’) is a richer style of Sauvignon Blanc because it ferments and ages in both new and old oak for 12 months. Elegant aromas of exotic fruit like dragon fruit, passion fruit and pineapple as well as ripe yellow peach and apricot. The concentrated fruit profile is complimented by aromas and flavours of wild herbs. Vibrant acidity and a lingering finish gives this beauty of a wine at least 7 years of ageing potential.
Country: South Africa
Region: Sondagskloof, Walker Bay
Grapes: Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon
ABV: 12.5%
Food Matching: Asparagus and and goat's cheese salad,
You’ve probably heard of the quaint beach town of Hermanus, situated on South Africa’s famous Whale Coast. Between 1855 and 1902, it was called Hermanuspietersfontein. In 1902, the local postmaster decided to shorten the name of the town to make addressing letters to the locals easier.
150 years later, the wine farm Hermanuspietersfontein, or HPF for short, craft outstanding wines with a serious sense of place. Their grapes come from Sondagskloof (they produce 90% of WO Sondagskloof wine), which competes with Elgin and the Ceres Plateau for South Africa’s coolest wine growing region. This area is perfectly suited to Bordeaux varietals and, with the exception of Shiraz, is exclusively planted with them.
The Afrikaans wine names might look like a bit of a mouthful, but they are good fun; Bloos (‘blush’), Kaalvoet Meisie (‘barefoot girl’), Kat Met Die Houtbeen (‘cat with the wooden leg’), Posmeester (‘postmaster’), Kleinboet (‘little brother’) and Swartskaap (‘black sheep’).
Wildeberg White 2021 Magnum
Regular price £54.00Wonderfully rich and fleshy from hand harvested bushvine grown grapes in Franschhoek. Wild Yeast fermented. Beautifully poised and elegant. Excellent food wine.
Country: South Africa
Region: Franschhoek
Grapes: Field blend, but mostly Semillon
ABV: 13%
Chicken Biriyani or dishes with Cardamon.
Boekenhoutskloof Semillon 2021
Regular price £49.95The nose is delicate, restrained and elegant with its grapefruit, greengage, chamomile and apple blossom aromas and whiffs of exotic spice. The floral character of the nose follows through onto a richly textured mid-palate, showing yellow peach, poached pear and nectarine against a backdrop of fresh mandarin and green fig flavours with integrated acidity and a full body. The ripe stone fruit character adds to the complexity on the palate and the spicy finish with hints of fenugreek, black cardamom and Cape fynbos complements a very balanced wine.
Country: South Africa
Region: Franschhoek Valley
Grapes: Semillon (97%), Muscat d'Alexandrie (3%)
ABV: 13.5%
Great with Cape Malay dishes such as beef baboti - a well-known South African dish consisting of spiced minced meat baked with an egg-based topping.
Tim Atkin MW
96 points. Boekenhoutskloof's world-class Semillon uses grapes from three distinct blocks in Franschhoek, planted in 1902, 1936 and 1942, combining these with 3% Muscat d'Alexandrie. Showing more acidity and restraint than the stunning 2020, and less of the struck match character, it has notes of lemongrass, custard and beeswax and a core of chiselled acidity. Drinking 2024-32