Winery TahbilkSémillon
White wine
This wine generally goes well with poultry, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish.
The Sémillon of the Winery Tahbilk is in the top 20 of wines of Nagambie Lakes.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
Food and wine pairings with Sémillon
Pairings that work perfectly with Sémillon
Original food and wine pairings with Sémillon
The Sémillon of Winery Tahbilk matches generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or sweet desserts such as recipes of skate with capers, pasta with shrimp or express cherry clafoutis.
Details and technical informations about Winery Tahbilk's Sémillon.
Discover the grape variety: Cornalin du Valais
Very old vine cultivated in the Swiss Valais, resulting from a natural crossing between the petit rouge(*) and the mayolet. It is the father of red humagne, also called cornalin d'Aoste, the grandfather of durize or petit rouge du Valais or rouge de Fully and a relative of goron. - Synonymy: old red of Valais, red of the country in Switzerland, landroter (for all the synonyms of the grape varieties, click here!). - Description: medium-sized bunches, cylindrical, winged, compact, strong medium-sized peduncles with little lignification; medium-sized berries, spherical or short elliptical, skin of a beautiful bluish black colour with a lot of bloom. The foliage turns completely red in the fall. - Production potential: early budding in the year. Capricious and difficult variety. Particularly likes the limestone soils of well exposed hillsides that warm up quickly enough, lean and well drained. Semi-erect bearing, vigorous with irregular production. Resists well to winter frosts. Susceptible to the main diseases, especially to oidium and grey rot. Also susceptible to magnesium deficiency and stalk dehydration. Maturity: 3rd early season
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Sémillon from Winery Tahbilk are 2014, 0
Informations about the Winery Tahbilk
The Winery Tahbilk is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 80 wines for sale in the of Nagambie Lakes to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Nagambie Lakes
The wine region of Nagambie Lakes is located in the region of Goulburn Valley of Victoria of Australia. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Tahbilk or the Domaine Tahbilk produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Nagambie Lakes are Cabernet-Sauvignon, Marsanne and Mourvèdre, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Nagambie Lakes often reveals types of flavors of cherry, melon or citrus and sometimes also flavors of apples, peach or green apple.
The wine region of Victoria
Victoria is a relatively small but important Australian wine state. Located in the Southeastern corner of the continent, with a generally cool, ocean-influenced Climate, Victorian wine is remarkably diverse, producing all sorts of wines and styles in different climates. In all, the state covers almost 250,000 square kilometres (over 90,000 square miles) of land (almost the same Size as the US state of Texas), well under a quarter the size of its western neighbour, South Australia, and less than a third the size of New South Wales to the North. As such, Victoria's size - and to some extent, the state's viticultural history - can defy generalization.
The word of the wine: Grafting
A method used since the phylloxera crisis, consisting of fixing a graft of local origin on a rootstock resistant to phylloxera.
