El Enemigo Semillon (750ML)
From Mendoza
| Vintage: | 2020 |
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| Description: | 95 Vm / 94 JS / 92 Wa / 92 Ws / 92 We. #78 Wine Enthusiast Top 100 2023. The 2020 Semillon El Enemigo from Agrelo, Lujan de Cuyo hails from a 70-year-old vineyard. Aged with flor for a year before 15 months in barrels, it's a golden yellow in the glass. On the nose there are notes of flint, honey, a little hazelnut and cashew nut underneath the flor-based aromas of white flowers and pear. In the mouth, however, it's broad with a good, voluminous flow and a clove backdrop. Intense and creamy with a sustained layer of salinity, the stylistic acrobatics have opened up new possibilities for the varietal. -- Joaquin Hidalgo, Vinous Media. This has an intense nose of dried apple, grilled pineapple, cedar, salted butter, waxed lemon, green olive and smoked almond. It's medium-bodied with a layered and concentrated palate. Saline, toasty and smoky. Drink now or hold.-James Suckling. The creamy 2020 Semillon was produced with grapes from Agrelo in Luján de Cuyo. It fermented with indigenous yeasts and matured in oak barrels, 10% of them new, for 15 months, 20% of them without topping up, which made the wine develop a veil of flor yeast. It's expressive and aromatic with notes of white flowers and spices, and it has a light to medium-bodied palate with 13.5% alcohol and very good freshness for a warm year. 5,250 bottles were filled in December 2021.-Luis Gutierrez, The Wine Advocate. Opens with bright notes of citrus rind, almond skin and white peach before turning rich around a creamy midpalate of ripe papaya and poached pear. Buttery pastry notes fold in on the finish, with traces of saline. Drink now through 2026.-Aaron Romano, Wine Spectator. Sémillion old vines are being rescued in Argentina to make high-end wines with complexity. This is the case of this white from 50-year-old vines in Luján de Cuyo with a small percentage aged under flor. The nose shows subtle almond and acacia aromas that complement its citrus and saline notes. The medium-weight palate offers almond, grapefruit, pear and elevated acidity, finishing with light smoky notes.-Jesica Vargas, Wine Enthusiast. |
| Price: | $ 21.89 |
| Price in original currency: | None |
Available from Grand Vin Wine Merchants
| Address: |
1003 4th Avenue East Olympia, WA 98506 United States |
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| Telephone (regular): | 360-350-4896 |
First added to 1000 Corks on August 3, 2023.
