🏰The 2022 Damascene Franschhoek Semillon is a 【Sémillon from ancient Franschhoek bush vines (1942 & 1962), offering disarming purity, mineral-rich yellow fruit, and exceptional aging potential】. This white wine, aged 11 months in Austrian foudres, presents a well-balanced and precise profile with notes of fresh pears, green apples, herbs, and baking spices. It has disarming purity on the nose with mineral-rich yellow fruit, nectarine, and a little lanolin coming through with aeration. The palate is beautifully balanced with a taut, clinical line of acidity, a liberal sprinkling of white pepper mixed with stem ginger on the finish, and hints of beeswax, pear, apple scruffs, cinnamon, white peaches, honey, and butter. 🍴 This elegant Semillon pairs wonderfully with pork, shellfish, poultry, lean fish, and goat's milk cheese. 🥂 Perfect for a sophisticated dinner, a wine tasting focused on unique varietals, or as a thoughtful gift for a wine connoisseur. This wine will be at its most expressive within three to five years from vintage but, with careful cellaring, will continue to evolve and improve for up to a decade, developing waxy lanolin notes and tertiary flavors.