Deep walnut-gold, with slight copper and dark olive hues. Wonderfully intense and complex bouquet with rich layers of wood-age characters and faint hints of fruit.
Characters of coffee, dark chocolate, walnut, black tea leaf, cardamom, nutmeg, raisins, dried orange rind, dried paw-paw, dried pears, orange peel, and treacle. This is a decadent wine with generous and intense layers of flavour and a luscious textural palate with a fresh, sweet finish.
Oh my ... I could inhale the beauty of this muscadelle all day: so mellow, warm, inviting, fuelling the imagination with scents of caramel toffee, roasted salted nuts, prunes and strong roasted coffee. Riveting. And the palate, well, that is no disappointment. Believe it or not, the solera for this wine was established at the same time as the Rare levels of the company's muscat and muscadelle but, in the words of the maker, this wine has been 'driven younger in comparison'. That freshening lifts the intensity of flavour to an astonishing level. 375ml.