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Hunter Valley, Australia
Usher Tinkler Death BY Semillon 2024
Usher Tinkler Wines
Skin-contact Hunter Semillon that breaks every regional rule.
$30.00
750mlVintage may change. If it does, we’ll notify you of any price adjustment before dispatch.
About
Hand-picked from 40-year-old estate Semillon vines, destemmed and wild-fermented on skins for around ten days without any added sulphur, then pressed to neutral old oak (previously used for Chardonnay) for malolactic fermentation and roughly three months' ageing before bottling unfined and unfiltered. The result is textural and grippy rather than the bone-dry, stainless-steel style Hunter Semillon is known for — green chilli, white peach, kaffir lime leaf and lemongrass over a savoury, orange-wine structure.
Producer note
Usher Tinkler makes both styles side by side: Big Bad Bill, a classic old-vine Semillon in the traditional Hunter style, and Death by Semillon, one of the region's most deliberately unconventional natural wines — named for a family story about the winemaker's grandfather trading rabbit skins to Akubra after WWII.
Structure
Grape
Picked on Stef's structure profile.
