In alignment with the original vision and passion of the Seppelt Family to make 'the best' fortified wines around, it's nice to get reviews, awards and accolades to confirm our 'best' efforts.
100 Points James Halliday 2010 Australian Wine Companion View: Editorial
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The bible is out. The 2010 James Halliday Wine Companion with Seppeltsfield being the only winery to have a 100 point wine our fabled Seppeltsfield 100 year old Para Tawny- this time the 1908 Hide Editorial
100 Points Andrew Calliard MW, Langton's Fine Wines View: Editorial
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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. Hide Editorial
Article by Sydney Morning Herald Huon Hooke - Cellar Talk - "The Lager Crush" View: PDF
20/20 Points - Para Tawny 1890 Jancis Robinson 2008 View: Editorial
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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. Hide Editorial
100 Points James Halliday, Australia Wine Companion 2008 View: Editorial
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 be. In prior years I have given the wine 98 points, which is clearly wrong. 23oalc.Rating 100 Drink 2100. Date tasted January 2007. Hide Editorial
100 Points Robert Parker's Wine Advocate View: Editorial
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The 1907 Seppeltsfield Para Port, tasted like a Tawny Port on steroids as it was unbelievably intense in aromas and flavors. Hide Editorial
100 Points Robert Parker, June 2004. View: Editorial
“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.” Hide Editorial
94 points James Halliday 2010 Australian Wine Companion
Review by Rick Allen Mosman Daily 28.5.09 View: Editorial
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Made by Kevin Mitchell from Kilikanoon, amaster -especially with wonderful oldBarossa vines at hisdisposal. Juicy,earthy,mixed berry flavours, wonderfully smooth,gentle tannins. It will cover just about anyoccasion in style. $25. Hide Editorial
91 points James Halliday 2010 Australian Wine Companion
Wine of the Week Jancis Robinson View: Editorial
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Another rave review for the Seppeltsfield Cellar no 8 (9) Rutherglen Muscat from Jancis Robinson M.W. naming it Wine of the Week and lauding its great value as well as quality...you be the judge. Hide Editorial
Best 100 Australian Wines Matthew Jukes View: Editorial
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"It is worth pointing out that this wine is only available in 75cl format, which must make it one of the greatest value sweet wines in the known universe. Why we in the UK don't drink containers of this nectar at dinner parties is beyond me, given that this is exceptional value for money, as well as ancient and heroic and it makes everyone else in the room better looking instantly". So says Matthew Jukes
"Pale tawny, super transparent, molten Demerara sugar. Very slightly rancio, extremely sweet and pretty chewy. Very long indeed. I could imagine lapping this up with fresh walnuts. Great stuff. See my background to Seppeltsfield. VGV" So says Jancis Robinson M.W. of the same wine at the same tasting Hide Editorial
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OK.. if you thought sherry was only for Grandma, youre in for a HUGE surprise here. Very European, Amontillado is much drier, much ballsier than your stereotypical sherry and its about to make its mark Down Under. For a bit of class and style, serve this as an aperitif with olives, nuts and cheese or be even more adventurous (and oh so European) and enjoy the very dry, honey, orange-peel and nut complexity with chicken, duck, rabbit dishes or light clear consomm? soups. Or you could just pour a glass for yourself and enjoy something different but very rewarding. Marvellous balance and intensity of nutty rancio with penetrating aicidity; flavour-packed, fleetingly sweet and nutty, then a dry finish. James Halliday 2009 Wine Companion Drink to about 2010 Critics Rating: 95 James Halliday Our Rating: 95 21.5 % alc/vol Screwcap Hide Editorial
94 points James Halliday 2010 Australian Wine Companion
97 points James Halliday 2010 Australian Wine Companion View: Editorial
Full mahogany, olive rim; an intensely fragrant and equally complex bouquet; the flavours are more intense and piercing than those of the Muscat, rancio now a cornerstone, but the wine is not heavier or more luscious, simply marking the difference between tokay and muscat; 375 ml. Cork.
17% alc. Rating 97 Drink 2010 $59 Date Tasted Mar 09 Hide Editorial