Seppeltsfield Rutherglen Tokay is specially blended and carefully aged to create a modern, fruit driven style. Delightfully fresh and vibrant with lifted plum pudding aromas, luscious honey flavours and a lifted, cleansing finish this wine is an ideal accompaniment to chocolate based desserts.

Deep golden tawny with slight red hues. Fresh clean and spicy fruit with integrated vanillin oak and rancio derived from the oak maturation. Bouquets that come readily out of the glass and sweep past you with notes of pungent bramble, rancio and dry raisin toast, stonefruits, sour cherry flan and cassis. A complex run of flavours, nutty complexity emanating butterscotch and coffee, peaty and whisky-like, it rolls around the tongue hinting at spice and fruit cakes and querying you about when was your last sniff of sweet port-soaked pipe tobacco. The finish is balanced with wonderfully integrated spirit, clean and fresh. Ideally suited to cheese and coffee, and remarkably refreshing when served chilled

Colour is a bright golden brown. Fragrantly spiced with youthful floral and rose petal aromas, given depth by aged characters of raisined fruit with an earthy spirit lift. The aromatics are perfectly woven together, between layers of dried fruit florals lies a charming minerality that belies the wine's viscous texture, to drive home the point that really, this is a fruit driven Muscat in decidedly bang-right-on New World character. The palate is rich and luscious, with rich, raisined fruit balanced by a clean acidity and symbiotic, aromatic spirit. The after taste is soft, lifted and long lasting. Makes the perfect match to all desserts and fine cheeses, remarkably refreshing when served chilled

Seppeltsfield Flora Fino (DP 117)is a classic bone-dry flor style of great finesse, produced using the traditional solera system and is the finest example of its style in Australia. Fragrantly lifted and refined with a lively intensity of flavour the Seppeltsfield Fino is best served chilled as the ideal aperitif. The recipient of 8 Trophies and 42 Gold  Medals in Australian Wine Shows since 1990. 

Mahogany gold in colour with an olive green tint. The lifted nose diplays an array of honey, rich toffee and tealeaf aromas, combining with aged rancio complexity, whilst retaining intensity and freshness. The palate has great intensity with a depth of luscious sweet tealeaf, caramel and tokay fruit flavours, perfectly balanced by fresh natural acidity before a clean, lifted finish.

Seppeltsfield Wines are the cautious custodians of the priceless collection of fortified wines spans more than 150 years of winemaking excellence. This heritage includes a range of fortified wines that is Australia's most diverse and unsurpassed in reputation for quality. Seppeltsfield Rutherglen Grand Tokay is sourced from premium parcels of fruit and aged in small oak casks to produce a wine with luscious toffee-honey flavours, rich aged complexity and lingering length. The essence of Rutherglen Tokay is an ideal accompaniment to chocolate- based desserts.

Vintage wines are aged as individual components in old oak casks prior to undergoing a vigorous selection program to ensure only the very best components from the best years are introduced into the Tokay Solera.

With Constellation Wines in their (lack of) wisdom, deleting the Reynella Vintage Port from their portfolio, it has robbed us of one of our two Vintage ‘Port’ icons. This week we present a truly great vintage of the other, Stanton & Killeen Vintage Port 2002. Arguably the best vintage of Australia’s best VP style, it has been rated 96 points by James Halliday and has a capital city Gold Medal. It is near on impossible to find, more so now given we have purchased remaining stocks. If found, it is generally at its retail price of $39.99. This really is a case of, if you only buy one vintage port this year…

Careful blending of separate parcels of shiraz, durif and a host of Portuguese grape varieties has resulted in a wine of perfect balance. Lifted brandy spirit and dark cherry fruit dominate the bouquet.

Spicy blackberry and black cherry flavours combine to round out a wonderfully soft finish on the palate. Once again balance is the key word with an harmonious combination of fruit tannin and acid. Drinking well now yet has the potential to age gracefully for another 20 years or more.

Stanton & Killeen Wines Rutherglen Vintage Port 2002; Excellent hue, still red-purple; a totally delicious vintage port style, with an elegance no other young Australian vintage ports approach; spicy black fruits, and a long finish. Cork. 18.1% alc. Rating 96 Points Drink 2022 Date Tasted Mar 07 James Halliday Wine Companion

Gold Medal - Hobart Wine Show 2006

Supple, elegant and harmonious, this silky-fine port has a restrained but delightfully perfumed bouquet of brandied morello cherries, dark chocolate, cinnamon and cloves backed by notes of fresh spirit and floral aromas. It opens slowly, with intense flavours of dark cherries, plums, briar and spices lifted by warm, fresh spirit and a modest sweetness. Underpinned by smooth, fine tannins, it finishes with a delightful length of flavour, refreshing spirit and acidity. (Rutherglen, 93 points, drink 2010-2014) Jeremy Oliver

An evocative mélange of sweetscented wild flowers, Rainier cherry, cocoa and cool eucalyptus pack a punch to the nose. A tale of two Ports: one side is soft and exudes feminine stylishness and immediate approachability, while the other is endowed with power and massively concentrated fruit. Rich and chewy, showcasing a sweet entry with black cherry, ripe plum and blackcurrant flavors, enhanced by an exemplary level of acidity. The persistent finish is a showstopper while the impressively firm grippy tannins show up in time for the curtain call, allowing this 2007 VP to age effortlessly for three decades minimum, and possibly five. But there’s no reason to wait as it shows lots of charm now, too. 6,500 cases produced (12 x 750s). Simply put, this is the best Warre’s Vintage Port I’ve ever had, at this early stage of its evolution Roy Hersh , For the Love of Port 01/11/2009

A floral wine, offering dusty tannins to go with its sweet crushed strawberry flavors. There are spice and black fig flavors as well as elegance - a sense of proper restraint just waiting to power out in maybe 10 years. At the moment, it is all fruit, but over time it will show more structure. Wine Enthusiast 01/10/2009

The first Warre's vintage to be made entirely from its own vineyards. Fine, fragrant, great aromatic purity yet restrained. Rich, full style, even fleshy. Not as big as some but fine and expressive. Lovely grip, with elegance and poise. Richard Mayson , Decanter Magazine 01/08/2009

Liquorice and richness on the nose. Lots of spice and sweetness and very complete. Perhaps the wine closest to classic vintage port of all the 42 wines tasted here. Biding its time, all in place. Not at all showy. Dry finish. Great balance and integration. Jancis Robinson , jancisrobinson.com 21/05/2009

Fresh, bright red fruit and a hint of Golden Delicious apple too. Full bodied but silky, showing preserved cherries and a bit of cream on the finish Richard Hemming , Jancis Robinson website 12/05/2009

Offers lovely perfumed aromas and beautiful raspberry and blackberry character, turning to tar, black truffle and wet earth. Full-bodied and medium sweet, with a balance of very chewy tannins and sugary fruit at the finish. This goes on and on. The great 1994 again? James Suckling , Wine Spectator 06/05/2009

Fathomless inky plum in appearance, this has instant appeal. The nose is richly concentrated with seductive old vine fruit lifted by fresh primary berry notes and fresh violets. The palate is similarly aromatic, lively with a gregarious personality which almost obscures really impressive underlying power. Corney & Barrow 01/05/2009

Violets and dried flowers overlay the black fruits on the nose. Blackcurrant and bramble underpinned by sloe give a seductive richness and this is emphasised by the dark chocolate and liquorice. The mid palate is dense packed with fruit power. The polished tannins all add to the seductive feel and the elegance of the finish. Derek Smedley, MW