TASTING NOTES FOR Mount Pleasant Icon Series Lovedale Semillon Hunter Valley New South Wales 2019

🍷 Appearance
Pale straw with a light golden hue. Bright and pristine, showing early bottle-aged development.

👃 Aromas
Intense and classic, with lemon, lime and lemongrass.
Developing notes of lanolin, toast and subtle honey add complexity, reflecting time in bottle and the hallmark Lovedale style.

👅 Palate
Light to medium-bodied and beautifully concentrated, delivering pure citrus—lemon and lime—at its core.
A powerful acid line drives the wine, with developing layers of toast, waxy texture and gentle savoury notes building through the palate.

🍈 Texture & Finish
Fine and tightly structured with a lightly waxy, silky mouthfeel.
The finish is long, precise and mineral, with lingering citrus, toast and exceptional length driven by acidity.

🍇 Overall Style
A benchmark aged Hunter Valley Semillon—focused, complex and built to evolve.
Combines citrus purity with emerging bottle-aged characters, offering both immediate drinking pleasure and outstanding cellaring potential.

🍽️ Food Pairing
Perfect with oysters, fresh seafood, grilled fish or lemon-based chicken dishes. Also excellent with Asian cuisine and light, herb-driven meals.

🥂 BBD Verdict
A seriously impressive Semillon—this is Lovedale pedigree in full flight.
Perfect for premium mixed dozens where you want to showcase one of Australia’s great white styles—or a standout straight dozen for collectors and lovers of aged Hunter Semillon.

Cheers
Peter Turnbull
Better Buy The Dozen 🍷