$40
We all need more German Riesling in our lives, and here’s a great offering from an outstanding vintage at a lip-smacking price. With 50g/L of residual sweetness, this is a pure, refined, medium sweet Kabinett from the Nahe region with a bouquet of lemon, lime, honey and figs. The palate balances fresh minerality and zesty [...]
$124
96 points
With the viscosity of engine oil and the potency of octane, this bottle will last for years because a thimble full will keep you going for the night. It’s as black as pitch, with aromas of vegemite, old tractor shed and wood spice. It tastes like burnt almonds in toffee with a marmalade-like zestiness to [...]
$100
96 points
I find many top shelf Aussie tawnies to be too sweet, unctuous and confected to command their lofty prices and this is why this savoury, complex, linear style is an altogether more serious offering. Undeviating from start to finish, it’s layered with roast nut complexity and rising savoury concentration. Crack a bottle and it will [...]
$149
96 points
Sealed in the vaults of the historic Seppeltsfield estate in the Barossa Valley are some 24 000 barrels containing more than seven million litres of fortified wines dating from 1878. Hidden in the nooks and crannies are special old parcels which winemaker James Godfrey has resurrected and balanced with young, fresh wine to produce a [...]
$145
96 points
I most enjoy vintage port after it’s twenty years old. I have a VP section in my cellar that I leave alone and a section that I like to drink and the transition tends to occur at around two decades. Except with wines like this. Even at six year old, its purity and youthfulness are [...]
$124
97 points
The oldest base wine for Campbells Merchant Prince is well over sixty years old, making this wine a priceless and finite resource. In this light it represents one of the great bargains of the wine world. Black in colour and decadently concentrated, the bouquet is a mass of aromas of old machine shed, wood spice, [...]
$73
97 points
The Rare fortified wines of Rutherglen are the epitome of their style anywhere in the world, unsurpassed in their concentration and richness. But for me they are too much to drink in anything more than the smallest quantities on the coolest nights. But Campbell’s Grand fortifieds possess an inherent seamless harmony between aged richness and [...]
$35
96 points
Consistently Australia’s most gorgeous sweet Riesling, this wine is an institution even in an ordinary vintage. But when the season sings, it really hits the high notes. Lavished with ginger marmalade, dried fruits and rhubarb flavours, this is an immensely complex dessert wine which is carried by finely structured acidity and perfectly poised persistence.
$149
96 points
This wine is a piece of living history, containing parcels dating back to the mid-decades of the twentieth century. These explain its incredible concentration and complexity of roast nuts, vanilla, dark chocolate, cherry liqueur and flor yeast flavours. It is kept fresh and lively with the addition of perfectly-gauged younger components.
$73
95 points
Deep in colour and in concentration, this is a wine of such potency that it need not be consumed more than a drip at a time – which makes it incredible value for money. The bouquet is a mass of burnt toffee, roast nuts and dark chocolate. On the palate, powerful rancio characters of wood [...]
95 points