Winery Cockfighter’s GhostSémillon
White wine
This wine generally goes well with poultry, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish.
The Sémillon of the Winery Cockfighter’s Ghost is in the top 10 of wines of Hunter Valley.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Sémillon of Winery Cockfighter’s Ghost in the region of Nouvelle-Galles du Sud often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of oak, tree fruit or spices.
Food and wine pairings with Sémillon
Pairings that work perfectly with Sémillon
Original food and wine pairings with Sémillon
The Sémillon of Winery Cockfighter’s Ghost matches generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or sweet desserts such as recipes of leek and tuna pie, scallops or scallops express with cognac or gaufress and light.
Details and technical informations about Winery Cockfighter’s Ghost's Sémillon.
Discover the grape variety: Olivette noire
The exact origin of this variety is not known and it is not related to the white olivette. Today, it is very difficult to find the Olivette noire at wine nurseries because its multiplication is almost nil, registered however in the Official Catalogue of table grape varieties list A1. There is still the possibility of grafting it yourself, provided that you get grafts that are in a satisfactory state of health, which is not always the case.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Sémillon from Winery Cockfighter’s Ghost are 2016, 2014, 2010, 0 and 2015.
Informations about the Winery Cockfighter’s Ghost
The Winery Cockfighter’s Ghost is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 32 wines for sale in the of Hunter Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Hunter Valley
The Hunter Valley is unquestionably the best known and most highly prized wine region in NewSouthWales. Its most famous wine style is its distinctive Dry Semillon, while Shiraz, is also long-established. It is also regarded as a pioneer of Australian Chardonnay. Hunter Valley Semillon Semillon was first planted here in the 1830s.
The wine region of Nouvelle-Galles du Sud
The NewSouthWales wine appellation is made up of 16 different regions and covers approximately 810,000 square kilometres (312,000 square miles). This is the Size of the state of New South Wales, one of the six that make up the federal Commonwealth of Australia. Although it is one of the smallest Australian states geographically, it has been the most populous since the first European settlements in the 18th century. The South East Australia GI area is the largest in Australia and can include any wine produced in New South Wales as well as Victoria, Tasmania and Parts of South Australia.
The word of the wine: Rootstock
American vine on which a French vine is grafted. This is the consequence of the phylloxera that destroyed the vineyard at the end of the 19th century: after much trial and error, it was discovered that the "pest" spared the roots of the American vines, and the technique became widespread.
