Sileni Cellar Selection Sauvignon Blanc 2023
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.
Pegasus Bay Sauvignon/Semillon 2019/20
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: 100% Semillon
ABV: 13%
Ideal with white fish dishes, fresh oysters and prawns.
Certified Heritage Vineyards planted in 1905.
G de Guiraud Bordeaux Blanc 2019
Regular price £25.95Scrumptious, complex white wine. Distinct aromas of ripe pineapple, passionfruit and a hint of toasted sesame. In the mouth, it is full-bodied, yet fresh and zesty. This wine will evolve nicely over a few years, although it's so delicious now, it will be hard to resist drinking immediately.
Country: France
Region: Bordeaux
Grapes: Sauvignon, Semillon
ABV: 13.5%
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
McFarlane Wines Capitoline Wolf White Semillon/Chenin Blanc 2023
Regular price £19.95The notes of quince and white flower with ripe yellow fruit and green spice on the nose. On the palate it starts with spiced ginger biscuit. The wine shows a bright acidity and fleshy fruit.
Country: South Africa
Region: Western Cape – Franschhoek / Bot River / Durbanville
Grapes: 70% Semillon, 30% Chenin blanc
ABV: 12%
Food pairing: guanciale carbonara, lightly toasted hot cross bun, lashings of butter and a sliver of sharp cheddar.
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
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%
Carmes De Rieussec Sauternes 2013
Regular price £21.00Intense aromas, hawthorn flowers, fresh fruit, with a minty note characteristic for the vintage. The sweetness is gentle and consistent. Great precision and freshness.
Country: France
Region: Sauternes, Bordeaux
Grapes: Semillon, Sauvignon Blanc
ABV: 13.5%
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
Shannon Semillon Elgin 2019
Regular price £23.95Ginger, lime zest and quinine; the palate has a saline minerality, spice, ripe pear, quince and citrus and a lingering minerality.
Country: South Africa
Region: Elgin
Grapes: Semillon
ABV: 13%
Food Match: Seafood, grilled fish, salads or creamy pasta dishes.
Shannon’s Sémillon vineyards are planted on Table Mountain Sandstone soil, eight miles inland from the cooling breeze of the Atlantic Ocean. Matured in new French oak barrels for 3 months.