De Bortoli
Noble One Botrytis Sémillon
Riverina, Big Rivers, New South Wales, Australia
Guests over for Sunday lunch. No formal notes. Went down well with fresh strawberries and cream. The colour was like a dark burnished copper. An apricot note - not overly sweet which was good. The bottle size at 500ml was perfect. One of Australia’s best performed dessert styles on the Australian show circuit with numerous trophies and gold medals.
Guests over for Sunday lunch. No formal notes. Went down well with fresh strawberries and cream. The colour was like a dark burnished copper. An apricot note - not overly sweet which was good. The bottle size at 500ml was perfect. One of Australia’s best performed dessert styles on the Australian show circuit with numerous trophies and gold medals.
Aug 29th, 2022Lunch at home with friends on Saturday. Gives one an opportunity to open a Sauternes style which doesn’t happen often. The Noble One from de Bortoli is generally regarded as one of Australia’s finest Dessert style wines made from Semillon grapes effected by botrytis. A lovely apricot and honeycomb note with diminished acid.
Lunch at home with friends on Saturday. Gives one an opportunity to open a Sauternes style which doesn’t happen often. The Noble One from de Bortoli is generally regarded as one of Australia’s finest Dessert style wines made from Semillon grapes effected by botrytis. A lovely apricot and honeycomb note with diminished acid.
Jun 27th, 2021
1/2 bottle. Toasted honeycomb, jasmine tea, caramel, overly poached pear, balancing acid and apricot jam on the finish. Yum!
1/2 bottle. Toasted honeycomb, jasmine tea, caramel, overly poached pear, balancing acid and apricot jam on the finish. Yum!
Nov 8th, 2019
Wifey detected aging, I didn’t. However, still a superb effort. Liquid candy augmented by herb notes. Pure decadence.
Wifey detected aging, I didn’t. However, still a superb effort. Liquid candy augmented by herb notes. Pure decadence.
Nov 4th, 2019
Vintage 2001 / I was surprised by the deep brown colour... as I drunk 2009 only a few months back with a nice golden colour. Will it be okay? I thought. Completely wrong. As the wine appears to be excellent. Smell with very prominent apricot. Great balance with subdued sweetness. I enjoyed this enormously. At restaurant Dôme in Anvers/Antwerpen.
Vintage 2001 / I was surprised by the deep brown colour... as I drunk 2009 only a few months back with a nice golden colour. Will it be okay? I thought. Completely wrong. As the wine appears to be excellent. Smell with very prominent apricot. Great balance with subdued sweetness. I enjoyed this enormously. At restaurant Dôme in Anvers/Antwerpen.
Jul 24th, 2019Vintage 2009 / no formal notes but my goodness I felt in heaven sipping this wine that I considered to be a beerenausle tasted blindly.
Vintage 2009 / no formal notes but my goodness I felt in heaven sipping this wine that I considered to be a beerenausle tasted blindly.
May 4th, 2019A brilliant example of a dessert wine. Not heavy or coying, just excellent. Compliments my wife’s Twix bar dessert perfectly. God bless the convicts 😃
A brilliant example of a dessert wine. Not heavy or coying, just excellent. Compliments my wife’s Twix bar dessert perfectly. God bless the convicts 😃
Dec 26th, 2018attaque franche avant de devenir un peu lourd
attaque franche avant de devenir un peu lourd
Oct 3rd, 2018
10.5% alc.
Not a big fan of the ridiculous US Government Warning but you just have to love the Australian way of consumer information:
Preservative (220) added
Anti-oxidant (300) added
Approx 3.1 standard drinks.
See that tells me everything I want to know....🙄..🤔
10.5% alc.
Not a big fan of the ridiculous US Government Warning but you just have to love the Australian way of consumer information:
Preservative (220) added
Anti-oxidant (300) added
Approx 3.1 standard drinks.
See that tells me everything I want to know....🙄..🤔
Excellent condition but very brown in the glass
Excellent condition but very brown in the glass
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