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This Muscat was made in the traditional grand manner with the liqueur still maturing in old oak casks at the Oakvale winery. Dense Muscat aromas of raisins, toffee and roses dominate the nose, along with some molasses and treacle characters. The palate is rich and warm with similarly luscious toffee and raisined flavours and an underlying smoky character from oak cask maturation.
Muscat is ideal with food especially with Cheese, dried fruit, nuts, dark chocolate & Christmas pudding.
Following extensive ageing of the Shiraz and Touriga grapes on the vines, the grapes were hand picked, crushed, de-stemmed and transferred to open fermenters. The grapes then fermented for only a short time on skins, before being stopped by the addition of spirit (fortification), up to a strength of about 18% alcohol. Doing so retained most of the natural sugars, which give this style of wine great sweetness, as well as strength and body from the fortifying spirit. Very long term ageing in old puncheons then followed, before blending from a number of vintages and ongoing bottling as the wine ages.
18% ALC/VOL
Oakvale Wines