2026 'Like a Version' Braemore Semillon

With similar conditions to last vintage, we experienced a relatively dry growing season from budburst through to verasion, with the vineyard looking textbook perfect and ready for the run home to harvest. A brief period of rain early in the new year provided some wecome relief from the very dry conditions, ultimately leading to beautifully ripe fruit with perfectly balanced natural acidity, and another relatively generous crop from the 2026 vintage.

We started picking the Braemore vineyard on the 22nd of January, and just like last year, it was evident that the whole vineyard was ripening very quickly and evenly so we managed to hand-pick the whole vineyard be January 30th.

This parcel was sourced from the Point Block, hand-picked on the 29th of January, which was argaubly the best parcel of the vintage.

The 2026 vintage release is the second vintage made solo by winemaker Daniel Thomas, who has produced another intriguing 'cover version' Braemore Semillon.

Semillon from our second last pick of Braemore (from the Point Block) was whole-bunch pressed straight to tank for overnight settling. With no enzyme addition to aid in settling, some solids remained in suspension when the juice was racked to 8-year-old French oak barriques (225L) for a spontaneous (natural yeast), relatively warm and fast fermentation.

The wine remained in oak for the next five months with fortnightly stirring of the yeast lees.

Tasting this wine alongside our more classically shaped 2026 Braemore Semillon provides an absolutely compelling comparison.

The 2026 "Like a Version" is definitely a richer, more open and textural expression than our classically shaped Braemore.

Very limited - only 107 dozen produced.

11.0% ABV