Stanton & Killeen Vintage Port 1999 (375ml)

Stanton & Killeen Vintage Port 1999 (375ml)Trophy Rutherglen Wine Show 2004 Multiple gold Medals Stanton 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 1999 Stanton & Killeen Vintage Port are principally drawn from 78 year old vines from the Jack's Block

Yarra Ridge

offering a change of pace between waiting for fruit to grow

together with new ownership

lingering on vanilla and brioche notes

The wine is matured in new and seasoned American

The 'amarone' is a winemaking technique named with the Italian word for bitter or sharp

This was partly replanted in 2008 replacing vines planted in 1947

strong relationships with a select group of local growers who have supplied them with additional fruit to supplement the estate crops when necessary

The soil and the climate reminded me of Champagne in the best vintage years

kindled an interest in planting some vines at 'Rocky Ridge'

This is a beauty

but you are likely to be drinking them more often given their cost