1997 Tyrell's VAT 1 Hunter Semillon

      1997 Tyrrell's VAT 1 Hunter Valley Semillon

We recently had a very pleasant lunch with the neighbours of Dazmaz, which included a few wines that warrant inclusion in the blog that is regularly read by literally a handful of people.

First up was a 1997 Tyrrell's VAT 1 Hunter Semillon.  This style of Semillon is unique to Australia and is a warmer climate white that really needs a decade or so to develop.  Good vintages can be quite magnificent at twenty years, plus.

Source: Winery cellar door.  Stored since purchase at 13ºC.
Drank: April 2014 (17 years).
Price:  It wasn't mine and I was too polite to ask.
Food: Sopressa Veneta.
Colour: Like a nine carat gold ring that might have been pawned by a bloke called Barry.
Nose: The initial impression was the absence of fruit and abundance of bottle age.  Perhaps some nostalgia for melon and stone fruit.
Palate: Again the fruit is mostly a memory.  Oily and waxy but not necessarily in a bad way.
Length: A bit short.
Overall: 1:1 away to a fairly decent mid-table side.

Creditable.  If you have any of these it's probably worth drinking them soon.

We also had a 1994 vintage later in the afternoon, which I'll get to shortly.  

Scoring system revisited

We at Dazmaz have received a couple of queries concerning our scoring system.  For clarity, West Ham United are an English Premier league side. 

They have not been overly successfull in the last few years, with 2006's F.A. Cup final appearance being the closest they have come to victory.  They did win the F.A. Cup in 1964, 1975 and 1980 and they won the European Cup Winners Cup in 1965.  They also won the World Cup in 1966, but had to play the games under the guise of the England national team.  They remain the only club in the world to have achieved this.