Produced from the Muscadelle grape, this wine is deep golden color with a pungent nose of candied fruits, quince paste and mature rancio characters. The viscous, silky palate seduces with toffee-apple, malt and cold leaf-tea, intensely sweet fruit balanced by bright acidity and walnut skin tannins.
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98 pts - Halliday Wine Companion: “It’s the end of a day’s tasting, and there's no way I’m going to spit out wines of this world-class quality. Malt, mocha, wild honey, caramel and every exotic spice you can think of - all these and more flavors blaze the mouth until you have swallowed it, when the aftertaste is wondrously fresh.”
96 pts - Wine Enthusiast: "Blended solera style with material that goes back to World War I, this is heady and rich but never cloying. It opens with aromas of figs, milk chocolate, coffee beans and an earthy underbelly. The palate is luscious, cloaking the tongue in a satiny blanket until the acidity creeps in towards the end. It is a beautifully indulgent sticky, as the Aussie say, to sip fireside on a cold winter’s night with a dried fruit-studded dessert.”
94 pts - Vinous: “Powerful aromas of candied fig, cola, molasses and orange marmalade, along with suggestions of candied ginger, honey and brown sugar. Broad and weighty on the palate, offering intensely sweet preserved pit fruit, toffee and orange zest flavors that show impressive depth and energy. The orange and fig notes repeat emphatically on the extremely long, intensely sweet finish, which leaves behind a suggestion of gingerbread.”
93 pts - Wine & Spirits: "From the grape known as tokay when it was harvested more than a century ago, this wine was rechristened as Muscadelle as regional names gained international trademark rights. Over the course of a month after the bottle was first opened, this wine moved from a deep, dark apricot-orange color and flavor to supple, expansive and mysterious ancient fruit depths, as if drilling deep into the earth and finding sweetness. When you open it, parse out small sips over the course of several weeks to enjoy the transformation.
