El Enemigo - Semillon Mendoza 2020 (750ml)

This has an intense nose of dried apple, grilled pineapple, cedar, salted butter, waxed lemon, green olive and smoked almond. It’s medium-bodied with a layered and concentrated palate. Saline, toasty and smoky. Drink now or hold.

Opens with bright notes of citrus rind, almond skin and white peach before turning rich around a creamy midpalate of ripe papaya and poached pear. Buttery pastry notes fold in on the finish, with traces of saline. Drink now through 2026. 400 cases made, 350 cases imported.

The creamy 2020 Semillon was produced with grapes from Agrelo in Luján de Cuyo. It fermented with indigenous yeasts and matured in oak barrels, 10% of them new, for 15 months, 20% of them without topping up, which made the wine develop a veil of flor yeast. It's expressive and aromatic with notes of white flowers and spices, and it has a light to medium-bodied palate with 13.5% alcohol and very good freshness for a warm year. 5,250 bottles were filled in December 2021.