Belford Single Vineyard Semillon
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2032
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Freshly shucked oysters, pan-seared scallops, or grilled white fish with a squeeze of lemon.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Belford vineyard, planted in 1933, is the furthest north of Tyrrell's single-vineyard sites in the Hunter Valley. Unlike the sandy alluvial soils of Pokolbin, Belford features a unique, fine silty loam over clay, which imparts a distinctive structural power and flinty, chalky minerality to the wine. Hand-harvested and fermented entirely in stainless steel without any oak contact, this single-vineyard Semillon is celebrated for its laser-like acidity and remarkable purity in its youth, which gradually evolves into a rich, complex masterpiece of toast, lemongrass, and beeswax notes.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 1858 by English immigrant Edward Tyrrell, Tyrrell's is one of Australia's founding wine dynasties and a cornerstone member of Australia's First Families of Wine. Nestled beneath the Brokenback Range in the Pokolbin subdistrict of the Hunter Valley, the estate oversees some of the world's rarest own-rooted heritage vineyards, notably the Sacred Sites planted as early as 1867 and 1879. Viticulture focuses on sustainable stewardship over ancient alluvial flats and weathered clay loams under a warm, maritime-influenced sub-tropical microclimate. The winemaking philosophy balances traditional techniques, neutral oak, and minimal intervention to preserve purity, vitality, and sense of place. Tyrrell's benchmark portfolio is internationally celebrated for Vat 1 Hunter Semillon—an austere, unwooded white renowned for its transformative longevity—alongside Vat 47 Chardonnay, widely credited with pioneering commercial Australian Chardonnay, and the singular, medium-bodied Old Patch and Vat 9 Shirazes.
🍇 Grapes
Semillon
🍷 ABV
11% - 11.5%