Every time we sit down to judge these wines, and the fortified wine category, it feels like one of the most privileged of tasks. The quality and specialness of these wines goes without saying but should not be taken for granted. All Saints takes the top gong for the second year in a row and does so in emphatic fashion.
2025 Fortified of the Year
All Saints Estate Museum Muscat NV, Rutherglen
100 points | Price when tasted $1200
This is beyond your wildest fortified wine dream; a world-class taste experience more than 100 years in the making. Dark walnut, slow moving, rich and ethereal in heavenly scents of Christmas cake, treacle-drenched figs, dried fruit and nuts, butterscotch and chocolate honeycomb. Less obviously sweet than younger Muscats, more obviously complex, velvety and endless. Rare old parcels of aged wines form the basis freshened with younger wines. The vision for the wine, its superlative taste, however, belongs to the blender and time. Bravo! 375ml. – Jeni Port
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Top-rated fortified wine from the 2025 Companion
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All Saints Estate
Museum Muscadelle Non Vintage
Fortified | Rutherglen -
All Saints Estate
Museum Muscat Non Vintage
Fortified | Rutherglen -
Seppeltsfield
100 Year Old Para Vintage Tawny 1924
Fortified | Barossa Valley -
Campbells
Merchant Prince Rare Muscat Non Vintage
Fortified | Rutherglen -
Chambers Rosewood
Rare Muscadelle Non Vintage
Fortified | Rutherglen -
Morris
Old Premium Rare Muscat Non Vintage
Fortified | Rutherglen -
All Saints Estate
Rare Muscat Non Vintage
Fortified | Rutherglen -
Buller Wines
Calliope Rare Topaque Non Vintage
Fortified | Rutherglen -
Campbells
Isabella Rare Topaque Non Vintage
Fortified | Rutherglen -
Morris
Old Premium Rare Tawny Non Vintage
Fortified | Rutherglen -
Morris
Old Premium Rare Topaque Non Vintage
Fortified | Rutherglen -
Seppeltsfield
Para 21 Year Old Tawny 2003
Fortified | Barossa Valley -
All Saints Estate
Rare Muscadelle Non Vintage
Fortified | Rutherglen -
All Saints Estate
Grand Tawny Non Vintage
Fortified | Rutherglen -
All Saints Estate
Grand Muscat Non Vintage
Fortified | Rutherglen -
Buller Wines
Calliope Rare Muscat Non Vintage
Fortified | Rutherglen -
Faber Vineyard
Grand Liqueur Muscat Non Vintage
Fortified | Swan Valley -
McWilliam’s
Hanwood Very Rare Tawny Aged 30 Years Non Vintage
Fortified | Riverina -
Morris
Cellar Reserve Grand Topaque Non Vintage
Fortified | Rutherglen -
Morris
Cellar Reserve Grand Muscat Non Vintage
Fortified | Rutherglen -
Pfeiffer Wines
Rare Topaque Non Vintage
Fortified | Rutherglen -
Pfeiffer Wines
Old Distillery Rare Muscat Non Vintage
Fortified | Rutherglen
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This is an edited extract from the 2025 Halliday Wine Companion, with reviews by James Halliday, Campbell Mattinson, Dave Brookes, Jane Faulkner, Jeni Port, Marcus Ellis, Mike Bennie, Philip Rich, Shanteh Wale and Toni Paterson MW. Cover art by Vera Babida.
