Varietal

Dessert, Sherry & Fortified

The World of Stickies and Fortifieds is a tasty one indeed.

In Australia we tend to end a meal with them. In other parts of the world they start with them! Think the delicious fortifieds of Banyul’s in Southern France, or, the Sauternes and Barsacs of Bordeaux.

You’ll find styles that made from grapes that are left to hang on the vines, concentrating their sugars, often under the influence of botrytis AKA ‘noble rot’, like Sauternes and Tokaji from hungary. Following fermentation they are left with considerable residual sugars.

You’ll often see the name ‘Late Picked’ or ‘Late harvest on the labels of these wines.

Then you’ll find fortified wines both dry and sweet like Port, Sherry, and Maderia where 75-98% ethanol spirit is added to increase the alcohol levels and in some cases stop the fermentation leaving the desired amount of sugar in the wine.

Fortifieds make some of the most unique Australian wines.

Rutherglen in Victoria is home to exceptional fortified wines that undergo long barrel ageing, including:

Topaque also known as Muscadelle after the grape variety they are made from (previously named Tokay with the name changed to meet EU naming laws).

Muscat named after the grape from which it is made also goes by the names: Moscato Bianco, Moscatel, Muscat Blanc à Petits Grains, Muscat of Alexandria and White Frontignac.

All of these are just the tip of the iceberg … which reminds me there’s Ice Wine too, made in very cool climates by letting grapes freeze on the vines pressing them to extract the concentrated juice leaving the frozen water behind! I feel for the pickers harvesting those grapes!

Chambers Rosewood's Legendary Rares & Grands

The Muscats

Chambers Rosewood ‘Grand’ Muscat 375ml NV

Muscat Petits Grains Rouge | Victoria, Australia

1 of only 4 Aussie wineries to hit the Top 100 Wineries of the World & with good reason. Chamber's Muscat & Muscadelle fortified are truly unique and very special wines! This wine displays a delightful intense combination of fruit and spice flavours with a lingering finish. The grapes for this wine are picked when the berries are fully ripe and mostly shrivelled. Great to enjoy with rich cakes, desserts or just savour by itself. Once opened the wine can be enjoyed over many months. This wine i

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Chambers Rosewood ‘Rare’ Muscat 375ml NV

Muscat Petits Grains Rouge | Victoria, Australia

1 of only 4 Aussie wineries to hit the Top 100 Wineries of the World & with good reason. Chamber's Muscat & Muscadelle fortified are truly unique and very special wines! This wine demonstrates exotic raisins, black cherry and dried fruit aromas and flavours. The solera for this wine is meticulously maintained and has been for over 60 years, and for a wine to be considered worthy to enter the Rare solera, the single vintage must be of exceptional quality. Serve after dinner with plum and rich c

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The Muscadelles

Chambers Rosewood ‘Grand’ Muscadelle 375ml NV

Muscadelle | Victoria, Australia

1 of only 4 Aussie wineries to hit the Top 100 Wineries of the World & with good reason. Chamber's Muscat & Muscadelle fortified are truly unique and very special wines! The wine demonstrates mocha, vanilla bean, malt and caramel aromas and flavours. It leaves a lasting and lingering impression on the mind and palate. It is a perfect foil for desserts such as cremé brulee or can be simply enjoyed alone. The base for this wine dates back to the late 19th Century with only very good to excep

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Chambers Rosewood ‘Rare’ Muscadelle 375ml NV

Muscadelle | Victoria, Australia

1 of only 4 Aussie wineries to hit the Top 100 Wineries of the World & with good reason. Chamber's Muscat & Muscadelle fortified are truly unique and very special wines! This wine demonstrates exotic coffee, malt, vanilla bean and mocha aromas and flavours which linger on the palate long after tasting. The base for the Rare wines is sourced only from exceptional material; the very best we can produce. The solera for this wine is meticulously maintained. Serve after dinner with a platter of

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The Wines of Château Rieussec

The Carmes

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The Rieussec

Nectar of the Gods!

Château Rieussec, 1er Cru 2015

Semillon | Sauternes, France

Rieussec along with Climens, de Fargues, Doisy-Daëne & of course d'Yquem is one of my favourite sweet whites from Bordeaux. The complexity and sophistication of the wine, particularly after is has had 10+ years in bottle is stunning. Beautiful to drink young, divine to drink with a little age on it. I had a half of 1996 early this year. Stunning!

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1st Pick Botrytis Berries. Sugar 77 g/l

Huet Vouvray Moelleux Première Trie ‘Le Mont’ 2017

Chenin Blanc | Vouvray, D'Anjou-Saumur

77 g/L. This sports a flamboyant edge, with apple crumble, ginger cream, quince paste, green tea and honeysuckle notes forming a wide panoply of aromas and flavors, while sweet and racy accents contrast, creating a lengthy finish where everything hangs in harmony. A stunning show of fruit and precision. James Molesworth, Wine Spectator 97 Points

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1st Pick Botrytis Berries. Sugar 90 g/l

Huet Vouvray Moelleux Première Trie ‘Le Mont’ 2020

Chenin Blanc | Vouvray, D'Anjou-Saumur

The intensely yellow colored 2020 Vouvray Le Mont Moelleux Première Trie is highly concentrated and complex on the nose that exhibits candied lemon zest and chutney aromas along with calcareous and walnut notes. Sweet (really sweet!) yet refined and elegant on the palate, this is a full-bodied, rich and generous yet piquant and firmly structured, greatly tensioned and salty 1ère Trie with pineapple flavors on the finely tannic and energetic, very sustainable finish. The 2020 has great aging po

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Toro Albalá Don PX Selección 200ml 1980

Pedro Ximénez | Spain, Montilla-Moriles

17% ABV. “The 1980 Don PX Selección is said to come from a warm and dry year that favored the raisining of the Pedro Ximénez grapes. This has lots of candied fruit and spice and combines the 17% alcohol with a whopping 340 grams of residual sugar. This aged in American oak butts until its bottling in September 2018. It surprised me with a complex and somewhat savory nose, reminiscent of bitter chocolate, licorice and roasted coffee, carob beans and black pepper. It's super concentrated, dens

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1st Pick Botrytis Berries. Sugar 125 g/l

Huet Vouvray Moelleux Première Trie ‘Le Mont’ 2022

Chenin Blanc | Vouvray, D'Anjou-Saumur

Despite its 125g/L of residual sugar, the 2022 Le Mont Premiere Trie Moelleux is balanced, fine and long. Yes, its sweetness fills the mouth and makes it blossom, but there's no suggestion of unctuousness or weight. It has tranquility as if it has just finished a weekend on a retreat, calmly coating the palate with its curves. In 2022, its tender acidity makes for a gentle conclusion with a delicate floral fragrance. Nevertheless, the refined, chalky tension pulls this wine through, bringing lin

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Quinta do Noval Vintage Port 2015

Port | Douro, Portugal

As always this 100% single-quinta wine is drawn from Noval’s own vines. There are three core parcels, all near the winery—the terraces directly surrounding the winery in Pinhão, the vines in the Roncão Valley and a parcel overlooking the Douro River. “The finish is long and jam-packed with delicious fruit, while the purity of that fruit is remarkable. Between its backbone and the freshness of the year, it should age well. Few will refuse a second glass of this debonair Porto at the

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Quinta do Noval 20 Year Old Tawny NV

Port | Portugal, Douro

"Gloriously fresh and completely alive, this adds an extra layer of depth and concentration of flavor to the 10 Year Old, of course, but that's not the main attraction here. This has all of Noval's typical grace and elegance while the complexity level is nicely above average. Then, its bright demeanor makes its fruit lifted and drives the medley of flavors home. It persists nicely, becoming something to contemplate as well as enjoy." Mark Squires, The Wine Advocate

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Toro Albalá Don PX Selección 200ml 1965

Pedro Ximénez | Spain, Montilla-Moriles

17% ABV. “Small lots of old vintages are released following no apparent logic, like this 1965 Don PX Selección, which is produced with white Pedro Ximénez grapes but it's black rather than white, bottled in June 2014 with 290 grams of residual sugar. It has a nose of pure curry, aromas of an Indian restaurant, very balanced, not as sweet as others, in fact it's more bittersweet than sweet, combining the spices with bitter chocolate and with very good acidity that makes it relatively easy to

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Quinta do Noval Vintage Port 2020

Port | Portugal, Douro

As always this 100% single-quinta wine is drawn from Noval’s own vines. There are three core parcels, all near the winery—the terraces directly surrounding the winery in Pinhão, the vines in the Roncão Valley and a parcel overlooking the Douro River. Each year, the blending proportions for the Vintage Port will vary depending on the vagaries of the vineyard. The 2020 is a blend of Touriga Nacional, Tinto Cão, Sousão, and Tinta Roriz (very little Touriga Francesa was used in 2020)

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One of my Fav's!

Quinta do Noval Vintage Port 2019

Port | Portugal, Douro

As always this 100% single-quinta wine is drawn from Noval’s own vines. There are three core parcels, all near the winery—the terraces directly surrounding the winery in Pinhão, the vines in the Roncão Valley and a parcel overlooking the Douro River. Each year, the blending proportions for the Vintage Port will vary depending on the vagaries of the vineyard. "This is well defined on the nose, with dusky black fruit laced with graphite and clove [and] hints of liquorice, eucalyptus

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Toro Albalá Don PX Convento Selección 200ml 1955

Pedro Ximénez | Spain, Montilla-Moriles

16.5% ABV. “One more single-harvest, old sweet wine, the 1955 Don PX Convento Selección was bottled in September 2014 and it had been aged slowly in very old American oak barrels and getting thick and concentrated through evaporation. Its 320 grams of sugar are (partially) compensated by 6.5 grams of acidity. It has a nose and palate of chocolate-covered candied orange, spices, molasses. I'd say the dominant aromas in the nose are dark chocolate. It's very dense, developing notes of very conc

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Quinta do Noval Vintage Port 2021

Port | Portugal, Douro

As always this 100% single-quinta wine is drawn from Noval’s own vines. There are three core parcels, all near the winery—the terraces directly surrounding the winery in Pinhão, the vines in the Roncão Valley and a parcel overlooking the Douro River. Each year, the blending proportions for the Vintage Port will vary depending on the vagaries of the vineyard. The 2021 is a blend of Touriga Nacional, Tinto Cão, Sousão, Tinta Roriz and Touriga Francesa—all foot-trodden in temperature

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Medium Sweet - 80-100g/l

Pereira D’Oliveiras Boal Colheita 2001

Boal | Portugal, Madeira

A delightful nose combines dark honey with herbal/vegetal, red date, hazelnut, smoke and wood-aged aromas. There’s a range of forest smells (wood, damp foliage, sweet, fresh clean air…), faded plum and a maritime pungency (very much a Boal character) of iodine engendering an umami rich-savouriness. The palate is incredibly subtle and unforced, a wine of natural delicacy where great aged character gives a medium-sweet mid-palate with considerable power. Deliciously sweet jar fruits with lovel

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Medium Dry - 60-80g/l

Pereira D’Oliveiras Verdelho Colheita 2004

Verdlho | Portugal, Madeira

Faded tropicals, sweet old persimmon with its citric edge, rancio and complex wood-oxidative characters. Slowly lengthening sweetness is guided by sweet-fresh acidity. The palate is gently plush, full of persimmon’s perfumed sweetness, velvet-textured, golden and round with tart fruit skin and jagged citric acidity giving penetrating run. Scott Wasley, The Spanish Acquisition

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Sweet - 100+g/l

Pereira D’Oliveiras Malvazia Colheita 2000

Malvasia | Portugal, Madeira

Aromatic interest aplenty, with complex tea smells lifting out of caramelised date richness. Grilled bread, nuts and polished timbers add interest to the sweetness. The palate is rich and lush, perfectly balancing old concentrated prune richness with fresher, grapier, perfumed lift, and there’s no heaviness or cloying. There’s graceful earthiness in the sweetness and the acid outruns the sugar, carrying iodine and nut past the caramel into a fresh, perfumed finish. Scott Wasley, The Spani

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Chambers Rosewood ‘Rare’ Muscat 375ml NV

Muscat Petits Grains Rouge | Victoria, Australia

1 of only 4 Aussie wineries to hit the Top 100 Wineries of the World & with good reason. Chamber's Muscat & Muscadelle fortified are truly unique and very special wines! This wine demonstrates exotic raisins, black cherry and dried fruit aromas and flavours. The solera for this wine is meticulously maintained and has been for over 60 years, and for a wine to be considered worthy to enter the Rare solera, the single vintage must be of exceptional quality. Serve after dinner with plum and rich c

$290

$280ea in any 3+

$270ea in any 6+

Chambers Rosewood ‘Rare’ Muscadelle 375ml NV

Muscadelle | Victoria, Australia

1 of only 4 Aussie wineries to hit the Top 100 Wineries of the World & with good reason. Chamber's Muscat & Muscadelle fortified are truly unique and very special wines! This wine demonstrates exotic coffee, malt, vanilla bean and mocha aromas and flavours which linger on the palate long after tasting. The base for the Rare wines is sourced only from exceptional material; the very best we can produce. The solera for this wine is meticulously maintained. Serve after dinner with a platter of

$290

$280ea in any 3+

$270ea in any 6+