投稿の詳細: 日滝原2013 Hitakihara 2013

先週瓶詰めした日滝原2013．
セミヨンとソーヴィニオン・ブランのブレンド。
とってもいいワインになった。
セミヨンもＳＢも単独で少量づつ瓶詰め。
ようやくセミヨンが本領発揮。

セミヨンはある意味難しい品種で、何となれば
最低でも樽で3年は経たないと美味しくならないとも
言われる。2012も可能性を感じてセミヨン100％を
一樽分瓶詰めしたが、その後眠ったまま。
但し2013は大分違うのでとっても楽しみ。
リリースは6月～7月頃かな。

Hitakihara 2013, the blend of Semillon and
Sauvignon Blanc, was bottled last week.
I am very happy of the quality of the wine.
I also bottled 100% varietal Semillon and SB wines
for each small lot. The Semillon shows its characteristics
to the great extent in the bottle.

Semillon is very difficult variety and is considered to usually take long
time to show its brilliant characteristics, say at least three years in
barrel. Semillon 2012 was good and I bottled 100% varietal wine
for a few hundred bottles but since then the wine went into the
quiet maturation mode, so called sleeping condition. As such, I cannot
predict how much it changes after bottling.
But in any case, 2013 seems different so far and I look forward to
release it in a few months time.