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**100 Points - James Halliday Wine Companion**
Over the generations, the 100 year old Para Vintage Tawny has retained remarkable consistency of style and character. A full-bodied tawny style, awesome in its power and concentration, every drop holds the promise of an exquisite life-enriching experience.
A beautifully balanced fresh and vibrant wine with all the traditional intensity and complexity of previous vintages showing a greater degree of elegance.
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100 Points
James Halliday 2010 Australian Wine Companion
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100 Points
Andrew Calliard MW, Langton's Fine Wines
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Vineyard Region
Barossa Valley
Grape Variety
Mataro, Shiraz (Syrah), Grenache & Cabernet Sauvignon
Maturation
Vintage in the old gravity cellar at Seppeltsfield and fortified with Seppeltsfield produced spirit. The wine was aged in 500 litre casks (puncheon) for the wines 100 years in the 1878 cellar.
Colour
Very dense, almost opaque, green brown with yellow edge.
Nose
The usual powerful intensity of age, sweet vanillin oak, raisin fruit cake, dark chocolate and burnt toffee aromas. Stunning freshness and lift with all characters in balance and harmony.
Palate
Sweet viscous with noticeable extract and weight. Amazing balance of sweetness, acid and alcohol. Intense fruit cake, vanillin oak and chocolate flavours all integrated together. The finish is intense and lingering with exceptional freshness and vibrancy.
Wine Analysis
Alc/Vol: 21.7
pH: 123
Peak Drinking
Now
Food Matches
Ideally suited to Cheese & Dessert
In 1866, plans to build a new stone cellar were started by Joseph Seppelt, the founder of Seppeltsfield. In 1878 the stone cellar was completed by Benno Seppelt. To celebrate, in a gesture both unique and inspirational, Benno selected a puncheon of his finest wine and gave instructions that it was not to be bottled for 100 years.
This became a magnificent tradition and Seppeltsfield Wines is now the only winery in the world to have significant stocks of wine laid down in consecutive vintages over 100 years.
“The Legend of Seppeltsfield” Tour
PAST RELEASES and VINTAGES
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Exquisite - The gift box is made by the local craftsman.
Over the generations, the 100 year old... view this item
100 points
"We finished the evening with a wine I have never before tasted. Easily equivalent to the William Chambers’ greatest fortified Muscats, the Seppelt 1899 Para Vintage Tawny Port was over the top in richnesss and honeyed complexity. It boasts notes of crème brulee, toffee and melted caramel as well as amazing flavor intensity. Yet it is neither heavy nor cloying. Great acidity gives vibrancy to this worldly elixir."
Robert Parker, June 2004
100 points
"The 1907 Seppeltsfield Para Port, tasted like a Tawny Port on steroids as it was unbelievably intense in aromas and flavors."
Robert Parker, October 2007
This is the one and only 100‐point wine made in Australia.
Seppelt 100 Year Old Para Liqueur 1907
"The usual honey, treacle consistency, the olive green/brown wine staining the sides of the glass as it is swirled; offers cinnamon stick, every spice known to man, grandma’s Christmas pudding and a hundred other things; the senses almost go into free‐fall, so intense and complex is the wine. The length is extraordinary and all the components (including volatile acidity) are exactly as they should
b. In prior years I have given the wine 98 points, which is clearly wrong. 23oalc.Rating 100 Drink 2100. Date tasted January 2007."
James Halliday, Australia Wine Companion, June 2008
Seppeltsfield, Para Tawny 1890 Barossa Valley
"Very, very intense brownish orange. Heady, lush, complete. Smells of history! Really thick. Even a tiny amount is so concentrated it seems to respond to chewing rather than sipping. You can hear the squeak of wagon wheels! Lift and freshness. Orange peel note."
Jancis Robinson 2008
Superb! 100/100
"Langton’s Fine Wines 1894 Almost opaque/black liquorice colour. Intense and lifted liquorice, aniseed, molasses aromas. Very classical for centenary. Immensely concentrated wine with deep‐set chocolate/burnt coffee flavours, long acidity and excellent alcohol cut. Finishes long and bitter sweet."
Andrew Calliard MW
"Like the ’51 Grange, like a Streeton painting, a Melba recording, a Bradman bat, or a Lawson short story, it's part of the Australian ethos. A true icon."
Huon Hooke, Sydney Morning Herald
In 1866, plans to build a new stone cellar were started by Joseph Seppelt, the founder of Seppeltsfield. In 1878 the stone cellar was completed by Benno Seppelt. To celebrate, in a gesture both unique and inspirational, Benno selected a puncheon of his finest wine and gave instructions that it was not to be bottled for 100 years.
This became a magnificent tradition and Seppeltsfield Wines is now the only winery in the world to have significant stocks of wine laid down in consecutive vintages over 100 years.
“The Legend of Seppeltsfield” Tour
PAST RELEASES and VINTAGES
Download the PDF for Availability and Pricing.
