Stanton & Killeen Vintage Port 1996

Stanton & Killeen Vintage Port 1996Stanton and Killeen is one of the great pioneering wine families of Rutherglen. They produce arguably the best Vintage Port in Australia, quite dry by Australian standards and closer to the Portuguese style. It is, according to James Halliday, "ludicrously underpriced". The grapes for the 1996 Stanton & Killeen Vintage Port are principally drawn from 75 year old vines from the Jack's Block vineyard. We must thank Chris Killeen for its production

there are smaller plantings of Cabernet Sauvignon

"and every tiny piece of ground with every [grape] clone and variety behave differently

Mount Mary is in the form of its life with Sam Middleton as Head Winemaker

fruity and ripe on the palate

rich but with finesse and so perfectly balanced

'I think knowledge and skill are best given forward

Offers much now

He named the property Clonakilla ('meadow of the church') after his grandfather's farm in County Clare

where the ancient soils of Marananga provide the backbone to some of the region's best-known wines

My love for wine has been further enhanced by my travels over the years

wild fermented and matured for 8 months in oak

a town in the Riverina region of New South Wales