Description
“The wine pours with a rich, golden, almost bronzing colour. It’s heady in its nuttiness, caramel notes, treacle and toffee with woody spices, dried apple and gingery notes. Delicious, actually, if not quite breathy with the heat of alcohol and defiantly gingery and spicy. Very sticky, too, in texture. It works though, wonderfully – a cavalcade of character and expressive sweet wine with some mature characters chiming in well. Superstar stuff, really.” HALLIDAY 2024
Orange marmalade and peach aromas, with a complex palate of brioche, butterscotch, stone fruit, honey and a slightly nutty character, giving a great richness and depth of flavour in duet with balanced sweetness and acidity. This luscious and mouthfilling fortified wine keeps giving in flavour long into the retro nasal. Golden amber in colour, it will keep for many years to come. This wine is made from Chardonnay and Verdelho grapes that have been left to ripen on the vine for a longer period to achieve a higher concentration of sugar. The grapes are hand-harvested, crushed and pressed with the juice is fortified with brandy and SVR spirit, and then transferred to old French oak barrels for up to 8 years.
“Golden amber in the glass. Complex nutty, rancio aromas along with golden syrup, bolied orange and spearmint. Layered, long and mouth-filling. Plenty of flavour and richness, balanced out nicely by some high quality spirit.” HuonHook – THE REAL REVIEW 2024, 90pts