Regular Price $22.99, Case Price (12+ bottles) $20.69

Brokenwood is, to those who remember their wines from the old days, one of the Hunter Valley’s most venerable estates and one of a precious few wineries in the world that specialize in making outstanding Semillon as well as Shiraz. Longtime winemaker Iain Riggs made the first vintage of Semillon at Brokenwood in the early 1980s and still continues to make three really different expressions of the grape including the world-famous ILR Reserve, a wine that can age gracefully for many decades.

But, for under $23, consider Iain’s 2024 Hunter Valley Sem, a thoroughly lovely, broad-palated white that cuts the variety’s rich Kadota fig, green apple, preserved lemon and florals in fine relief. Mouthfilling yet zingy, the fresh and lovely Semillon loves goat cheese, citrus and herb salads, smoked or grilled salmon and roast chicken dishes and drinks very, very well all on its own as an apéritif or just with a handful of nuts and dried fruit.
 
At under 12% ABV, its flexibility and food-friendliness makes it the ultimate house white candidate too. We love Semillon and hope you will too.