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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Sweet - 100+g/l

Pereira D’Oliveiras Tinta Negra Frasqueira 1997

Tinta Negra | Madeira, Portugal

Tinta Negra perfectly pitched. It smells like a wander through the island – the briary wild bushes, the cool and damp soil, the faded ripe citrus and old orchard leaves all steeped together as a living, breathing sense-picture. As ever with good Madeira, it’s a wine to hold very still so the scent memories can wander out and say what they will. There’s a touch of fruit flesh roundness, and the red-floral aspect tells of the black grape underlying, but these soon yield to Madeiran tangents,

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Quinta do Noval Vintage Port 2003

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 Quinta do Noval Vintage 2003 has a gorgeous raisin, fig and clove-scented bouquet with more freshness than the whole of

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Toro Albalá Don PX Convento Selección 375ml 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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Dry - up to 60g/l

Pereira D’Oliveiras Sercial Frasqueira 1989

Sercial | Portugal, Madeira

More time in wood equals more complex wood-balsalm volatile, secondary beauty. The fruit characters are raisined, preserved and citric all at once, wandering through a sky-wide nose of fine aromatic timber, grilled bread and nuts. Sercial’s vegetality is largely subsumed by fine old wood perfume. Complex as all get-out, with great harmony and composure. Dry and saline in the mouth, but with textural generosity through the palate, marked by complex herbal-woodiness and spiced juicy acidity.

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Quinta do Noval Vintage Port 2000

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 2000 Quinta Do Noval Vintage 96 is much stricter on the nose compared to the 1997 with very pure blackberry, boysenbe

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Medium Dry - 60-80g/l

Pereira D’Oliveiras Terrantez Frasqueira 1988

Terrantez | Portugal, Madeira

The rare Terrantez variety can be bottled as medium dry or medium sweet. This medium dry version is a remarkably complex, fascinating wine. Bitter medicinal herb aromatics with bracken, spiced wood, salted caramels, faded jar preserves, old straw and a touch of the maritime. The palate is sweet at first, with inseparable elements suggesting honey, brick, earth and wood. There’s an incredibly layered juicy acidity, which carries sweetness akin to a memory of the skins of fruit that has given it

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Medium Sweet - 80-100g/l

Pereira D’Oliveiras Boal Frasqueira 1987

Boal | Portugal, Madeira

Rich, raisined fruits, figgy with touches of maraschino and fat walnuts in a jam-packed, luscious nose. It’s grapey and succulent, but there’s lift and freshness, too – the smell of first rain after a long dry spell, with fine old balsamic timber complexity. Wonderful toasty-carob and grapey-raisin. The twin-tracked sweetness is beautifully rounded through two-thirds of the palate, then planes out and becomes lighter, drier and more lingering. Nuts and dates slide along a praline slick to

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Medium Dry - 60-80g/l

Pereira D’Oliveiras Verdlho Frasqueira 1986

Verdlho | Portugal, Madeira

Really decadent, voluptuous nose, heaps of deep dried fruit concentration, golden treacly richness with a vegetal lining, marmalade and billy tea for complexity and relief from density. Typical Verdelho plush citric mouth-feel, and typical buzzing acid relief. Delicately round with toffee sweetness cut by zippy fruit-skin tartness and electro-tingle acidity. Scott Wasley, The Spanish Acquisition Bottled 2013

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Willi Schaefer Graacher Domprobst Beerenauslese HALF 2019

Riesling | Mosel-Saar-Ruwer, Germany

From a selection of fully botrytised grapes. A gorgeously ripe yet elegant nose of William’s pear, pineapple, honeyed peach, toffee, hay, mirabelle, tar and fruit paste. Coats the palate with honeyed candied fruits, apricot and mango, but also quite some zest and intensity. The finish is very intense, almost tight, and magnificently focused. Starts off on the opulent side but leaves an outstanding and vibrating feel of candied citrus and tangerine in the after-taste. This is a great fruit-driv

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Toro Albalá Don PX Convento Selección 1958

Pedro Ximénez | Spain, Montilla-Moriles

17.5% ABV. “The oldest of the sweet wines I tried this time was the 1958 Don PX Convento Selección, a very complex and nuanced wine with notes of charred wood, tar, coal, bitter dark chocolate, licorice, roasted coffee beans and aromatic herbs. The palate is compact with no fissures and a bitterness that compensates the sweetness (it has 350 grams of sugar, so it's not a surprise that it doesn't feel as sweet as others). It's relatively dense, complex, rare and unique. They expect to produce

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Toro Albalá Don PX Convento Selección 1946

Pedro Ximénez | Spain, Montilla-Moriles

“The 1946 Don PX Convento Seleccion produced with Pedro Ximenez grapes dehydrated under the sun at the time of the Second World War, was only bottled in September 2011. This is an extreme wine, my first descriptor was ultra-mega-super concentrated. It is unbelievably powerful, both in the nose and the palate, full of umami, with sweet cinnamon, Christmas cake, camphor, petrol, lemongrass, Belgian chocolate and butter. Incredibly complex and rich, sweet, balanced and smooth in the palate, it is

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Quinta do Noval Nacional Vintage Port 2020

Port | Portugal, Douro

The most revered and collectable Port in the world! “It has a magnificent, exquisitely defined bouquet with a purity that bowls you over, perhaps even more intense than the 2019 Nacional tasted alongside. The palate is extraordinarily pure and intense, slightly vicious in texture, with layers of cassis, black cherries, blood orange and a dab of spice. Seamless on the finish. This is a worth follow up to the stellar 2019 Nacional. The two will fight between themselves for supremacy.” Neal M

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Sweet - 100+g/l

Pereira D’Oliveiras Malvazia Frasqueira Reserva 1907

Malvasia | Portugal, Madeira

A blockbuster wine, commanding respect rather than love, of which a few sips suffice. Alex Liddell, Madeira: The Mid-Atlantic Wine Deeply woody and bricky, opens to tea, fine adobe, honey, pippy sweetness, with lantana herbals and chocolate. The treacly richness exists within an amazing aromatic liveliness, thanks in part to a rainwater-juicy freshening lift. Very deep in the mouth, the palate interplays marmalade and molasses, with lots of complex volatile development character and wood-

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Medium Dry - 60-80g/l

Pereira D’Oliveiras Bastardo Frasqueira Reserva 1927

Bastardo | Portugal, Madeira

Bastardo is extremely rare: in 2015, just 55 litres of this black grape were harvested in Madeira! In the early 2000s, D’Oliveira had the good fortune to absorb a smaller house, Adegas do Torreão, whose legendary owner, Vasco Loja, had recently passed away. At the time of his death, his firm owned little bottled Madeira, but he did have some incredible wine still in barrel. By buying Loja’s stocks, D’Oliveira made several important additions to its portfolio, including a classic 1969 S

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Quinta do Noval Nacional Vintage Port 2021

Port | Portugal, Douro

The most revered and collectable Port in the world! “There’s such a purity of fruit here of sliced ripe cherries and crushed blackberries with blueberries, as well as fresh flowers. Medium- to full-bodied with ultra fine tannins that run the length of the wine. Really polished and silky. Medium sweet with pretty grip and presence. Reminds me of the perfect 2011 but with a little less concentration. Drink after 2030.” James Suckling, 97 Points “From a legendary plot of ungraf