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2019 Botrytis Semillon Reserve, Berton Vineyard, 375ml Wine Republic

2020 Botrytis Semillon Reserve, Berton Vineyard, 375ml

Riverina, Australia

Berton Vineyard’s 2020 Botrytis Semillon Reserve is the kind of dessert wine that makes pudding feel underdressed. From Australia’s Riverina, a region with a serious reputation for noble rot styles, it opens with apricot, orange rind, honey, peach, pineapple, marmalade and a little almond-biscuit richness.

On the palate, it is luscious without being heavy, with golden fruit, citrus lift and a silky sweetness held neatly in balance by fresh acidity. There is richness here, absolutely, but also control: the kind of sweet wine that feels indulgent rather than sticky. A half bottle made for blue cheese, lemon tart, fruit desserts, or quietly finishing the bottle with a spoonful of something creamy.

For when
Dessert is excellent, but the wine still steals the last word.

Pairs with
Lemon tart, crème brûlée, apricot tart, fruit pavlova, blue cheese, Roquefort, baked cheesecake, almond biscotti or a fruit and cheese board.

Berton Vineyard was founded by Bob and Cherie Berton in 1996 and has grown from its original High Eden vineyard into one of Australia’s most reliable producers of generous, characterful wines. Its Riverina winery in Yenda is central to this wine, drawing on one of Australia’s great regions for botrytis-affected Semillon. Sweet, golden and beautifully balanced, this is a classic Australian answer to Sauternes, but with its own sunny Riverina charm.

Whats in the bottle
100% Semillon

Notable Awards
Gold Medal, 95 points, Sydney Royal Wine Show 2025

£14.95 - £14.95
£14.95
£14.95 - £14.95
£14.95
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Berton Vineyard began in 1996, when Bob and Cherie Berton established their original vineyard in High Eden, South Australia. From those beginnings, the business has grown into a broad Australian wine producer with a strong reputation for approachable, well-made wines that overdeliver for the price.

The purchase of the Yenda winery in the Riverina was a major step, giving Berton access to one of New South Wales’ most important wine regions and a state-of-the-art facility capable of producing a wide range of styles. That matters particularly for Botrytis Semillon, as the Griffith and Riverina area has long been associated with Australia’s finest noble rot dessert wines.

Berton’s Reserve Botrytis Semillon shows the house at its most indulgent. It is rich, golden and honeyed, but kept fresh and bright by Semillon’s natural citrus line. For anyone who loves Sauternes, Monbazillac or late-harvest sweet wines, this is a brilliantly affordable and very satisfying Australian take on the style.

This wine is made from 100% Semillon grown in the Riverina, New South Wales. The fruit is left on the vine longer than usual to encourage the development of botrytis, or noble rot. This naturally shrivels the berries, evaporating water and concentrating sugar, acidity and flavour.

The grapes are harvested at optimum maturity, usually once they have become sweet, shrivelled and intensely flavoured. The fruit is left on skins overnight in the press to extract maximum flavour and sugar before pressing. The juice is then clarified and filtered before fermentation begins.

Fermentation lasts around four weeks. When roughly half the sugar has been converted to alcohol, the process is stopped by chilling the wine to 3°C, retaining its natural sweetness. The wine then undergoes oak maturation before bottling, giving extra depth, spice and gentle toasted complexity. The finished 2020 wine is bottled in 37.5cl format, with 11% alcohol and around 170g/l residual sugar, balancing luscious sweetness with fresh citrus lift.