Where it comes from: Worthy but unfashionable. A jack of all trades, Semillon is widely grown, but doesn't really star on its own anywhere, with the possible exception of its adopted home of the Hunter Valley in Australia, where it makes unique, ageworthy white wines. However, it is a key component of the luscious sweet wines of Sauternes and Barsa...
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One of the primary white wine grapes of the Bordeaux area (Graves and Sauternes). It doesn't have a large following in the U.S., but it should. Some of my favorite dry, white table wines are not the Chardonnay currently in vogue, but Semillon!
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Semillon, which has traditionally been part of the dry Bordeaux white blends as well as the incredible sweet wines of Sauternes, produces a dry complex white wine in California. As in France, it is often blended with Sauvignon Blanc.
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