This is beautiful wine.

Dry..crisp, wonderful acidity and just starting to develop it's classic semillon flavours of lemon flowers and beeswax.

Ok, honey...but professional wine writers say beeswax and beeswax sounds so much classier.

In 3 years this will have turned golden and the beeswax will drown out the citrus and it'll the best value wine sold anywhere in the UK .

I could give up Australian riesling and just drink this as the two are vaguely similar.

G ~wondering if GK will ever speak to me again~

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"Peter Lehmann Semillon 2005 Tesco £5.49 - Very typical lime and wax smell. Good, with fresh acidity in the mouth. Clean and typical. Cannot say fairer. 15/3/07" And a red star, but my red star machine is bust.

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I love the PL Semillon, it has been my house white for years, I reckon I’ve drunk more of it than Peter himself

G, your opinion of the 04 has improved, I agree it is not as rich as the earlier vintages, particularly the 01 & 02, maybe it just needed a couple of years in the bottle to develop. I’ve not tried the '05 yet.

Last year Tesco had the Tim Adams on offer, I picked three different vintages, from memory- '99, '01 & '03. I would take the PL Semillon over TA any day, and put the £3 saved towards another bottle.

That's odd, Tesco still have the 2005 at £4.98 both at my local store and online ( £4.73 with case discount )

The 2004 has just started to open up and should develop really quickly over the next few months

It was a poor vintage initially though and it really did have very little semillon flavour in the first 12 months or so.

Incidentally, Oz Clarke gives this wine a two star rating in his excellent Pocket Wine book. The only wine under £5 sold anywhere in the UK to get two stars..

I was reading an article in Decanter recently, Peter Lehmann’s winemaker (Phil Reedman I think) has been with him since day one and is responsible for every wine ever released under the Lehmann label.

Do M&S still have the 99 Hunter Valley Semillon (Twin something or other?) That for me is nicer than PL and of course already with 8 yrs on its back. Gorgeously light yet complex wine for summer.

No HV Semillon on their list.

Phil Reedman was, I thought, Tesco's man in Australia, but he's left them in the last 2 weeks. I know he's taking the MW and maybe wants to concentrate on that? However, it's a fairly common name and so there may be two different phils.

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I saw it a couple of months back. Maybe it's all finished now at last? Not surprisingly, for a white wine that's 8 years old. There's usually quite a bit of stuff in supermarkets that doesn't appear on lists tho, isn't there?

Ah….. Mel, you are probably right, I remember now you mention Tesco, it wasn’t in Decanter where I read it, it was in the Tesco Wine Club Mag and Phil Reedman could have been the chap conducting the interview. I can’t find the mag now, but the stat is true regarding Lehmann’s winemaker, whatever his name is

Andrew Wigan, he the man.