Stanton & Killeen Vintage Port 2000

Stanton & Killeen Vintage Port 2000Stanton 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". "Charmingly seductive, this savoury and slightly meaty wine is harmonious, approachable and integrated. Clean notes of spirit lift its sweet, leathery and nutty aromas of licorice like

Gouez said

Needs time

Dark chocolate and black cherry flavours

The first vintage received 49 awards

creamy oak and bright red berry fruit aromas and rich concentrated

"A real intensity to the perfume of rose and violets

Clairault/Streicker Wines has over 300 hectares under vine

Beautiful aromatic herb and floral perfume here

I had this particular wine in a lineup of much thicker and more plush South Australian Shiraz and it really stood out (in a good way) thanks to its more earthen

Intense elderberry

The above text was taken from an article by Angus Hughson published in Winepilot

whooshing across the palate in a laser beam of riesling tang