Best Buy Wines (Feb/Mar 2008): $30 and under

The Gourmet Traveller WINE panel – Max Allen, Peter Bourne, Bob Campbell MW, Peter Forrestal, Huon Hooke and Jeremy Oliver – recommend great-value wines from home and further afield.

2007 Tower Estate Semillon, Hunter Valley, A$26
There are two good reasons why you should buy this delicious wine. For a start, like many other producers in the region, the winemakers at Tower have imbued it with a little more texture and richness than you’d find in the classic, lean, tart, delicate Hunter style. There’s some creamy grape-pulp roundness in here among the variety’s light dusting of chalky acidity. Also, it is sealed under screwcap, which will help the wine mature slowly and reliably over…