Stanton & Killeen Rare Topaque Half Bottle 375ml, Rutherglen

Fortified Wine Of The Year 2024  Best Dessert & Fortified Tyson Steltzer's Top 250 Wines of 2024

Brilliant. With an average age of 25 years and including components dating from the 1970s, this is a rare Topaque of incredible depth and complexity, skilfully blended to the perfect balance of sweetness, tang, spirit, fruit and grand old rancio personality. Coffee bean, tea leaves, fruit cake, high cocoa dark chocolate and toffee billow in a grand crescendo at once lusciously extravagant and at the same time fresh and poised. A worthy winner of my Fortified of the Year.

97 Points, Tyson Stelzer Wine Business Magazine

Average age 25+ years

Rare in name and deed with aged material the basis for an extraordinary wine experience. Walnut-brown amber hues. Malt, burnt toffee and raisin fruitcake aromas with the added depth of complex nutty rancio. Rich, luscious flavours fill the senses with a vein of sweet, cold tea bringing freshness across the palate. Stays with you for a long, long time. 

96 Points Jeni Port winecompanion.com.au