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Sémillon

A white wine grape with white berries (Wikidata).

Grapes bred from it include Catawba, Flora.

On this site Sémillon is a main grape in 3 regions, from Bordeaux at 1,560 GDD (Winkler II) to Hunter Valley at 2,380 (Winkler V), so the same grape meets very different seasons.

Sémillon on Wikipedia

Sémillon grapes
Photo: Alison Parks-Whitfield, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Its regions on the heat scale

Each region's 1991–2020 normal growing degree days, coolest at the top. Tap a row to open the region.

Region IRegion IIRegion IIIRegion IVRegion V1,0001,5002,0002,500BordeauxBordeaux: 1,560 GDD (°C)Margaret RiverMargaret River: 1,920 GDD (°C)Hunter ValleyHunter Valley: 2,380 GDD (°C)

Recent vintages in its regions

Region20182019202020212022202320242025
Bordeaux+14%+7%+8%-6%+29%+24%-5%+9%
Margaret River-0%-9%+6%+3%+3%-3%+12%+7%
Hunter Valley+10%+10%+8%-4%-5%-6%+8%+7%

Percent above or below each region's 1991–2020 normal heat.

The regions