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Campbells Wines Muscat Australia
| Region: | Australia |
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WINEMAKER'S NOTE
Color: Bright amber gold with copper tints. Bouquet:Fresh raisin fruit backed by a hint of grape spirit and aged oak characters. Palate:Luscious mouthfilling raisin fruit followed by cleansing spirit on the back palate. Vintage Details: Each season grapes are picked after prolonged ripening to ensure maximum sugar levels and raisin character. The resultant wine is blended into our soleras to maintain a consistent house style when combined with wines from previous vintages. This wine contains portions read more...Color: Bright amber gold with copper tints. Bouquet:Fresh raisin fruit backed by a hint of grape spirit and aged oak characters. Palate:Luscious mouthfilling raisin fruit followed by cleansing spirit on the back palate. Vintage Details: Each season grapes are picked after prolonged ripening to ensure maximum sugar levels and raisin character. The resultant wine is blended into our soleras to maintain a consistent house style when combined with wines from previous vintages. This wine contains portions from a number of vintages over several years. (hide)
Expert Reviews
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Wine.comOur Merchant Prince is classified 'Rare' - it is the pinnacle, the richest, most complex and complete wine. The ultimate in intensity. Raisined sweetness explodes on the front of the palate. Complex nutty flavors flow through the full length of the palate and the drying tannin finish lingers for many minutes. Fruit is left to ripen on the vine until as late as possible to ensure the necessary high degree of lusciousness. Juice is fermented for only a very short time before being fortified with ne...
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Wine & SpiritsDark copper with a hint of red at the rim. Burnt orange, toffee, marzipan and smoky herbs on the nose, with a deeper note of molasses sneaking up with air. Very sweet and broad in the mouth, repeating the toffee and molasses qualities and showing very good depth. This distinctly syrupy wine is more powerful than the tokay, finishing with a very good thrust and lingering notes of brown sugar and toffee apple.
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Robert Parker"The non-vintage Tokay reveals hints of Chinese black tea interwoven with caramel, buttered nuts, prunes, and toffee. These wines rarely improve in the bottle, but even after 5-10 years, they do not reveal any signs of falling apart."
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CellarTracker Community Tasting NotesCommunity Tasting Notes (average 89.9 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 51 notes)
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Wine AdvocateRating: 98/100 - As reviewed in Wine Advocate # 161 on Oct-05
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Wine SpectatorRating: 96/100 - As reviewed by Wine Spectator on 12/31/04
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Wine Enthusiast
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James Halliday
User Tasting Note
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MilošRich, and luscious with molasses, raisins and black toffee aromas. The palate is thick and intense with a touch of spice on the long, warming finish.
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dugfishTastes exactly like well aged raisins. Fantastic with Greek rice pudding right now. Damn beautiful colour too. 375ml
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Fellow Drync'rRutherglen, Australia - light port, very raisiny
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Fellow Drync'rExcellent Desert wine
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ajp50quite similar to PX
