Morris Old Premium Rare Liqueur Muscat NV 500ml

100 POINTS

James Suckling

Like 100 Christmases in the one glass. Ancient material blended across decades and decades, delivering immense depth, layering and complexity. Smells of dark toasted wood, dark chocolate, currants, raisins, plum paste and alluring, fragrant spices. The palate has a smooth, pillowy texture, rich and spicy raisins and ebb and flow of dried-plum flavors, emanating warmth in treasured layers.

99 POINTS

James Halliday - Halliday Wine Companion

When I first judged the fortified wine classes at the Sydney Wine Show 45 years ago, I was a cork bobbing in a sea of unimaginable intensity and density of flavours. But Len Evans made it clear that the best wines had freshness in the midst of a bewildering tsunami of luscious spiced, dried fruit flavours. It has amazing freshness, length and a bright finish, rancio in high relief.

98 POINTS

Mike Bennie - The Wine Front

Probably the signature wine of Morris, though the CHM muscat at $500 for 375ml bottled on demand by David Morris himself would pip that, but let’s not consider that part of the core range. The oldest material in this wine goes back over 100 years, and on average is over 20 years, but that’s not an exact science either. Dark brown with bright olive green tinges for colour. Sticks to the glass. Holy Moses, the aroma! Smells like sepia-toned olden days! Rancio, molasses, old wood, dried fruit, spice, mustard powder. Insanely complex. You could inhale and have a good time. SO rich to taste though, dense, unctuous, rolling with waves of molasses, concentrated dried fruits, wood spice and yet freshened with a glassy undertow of acidity. I don’t know how much length there is here as I can’t stop tasting it, and yet a briny zing helps the palate get past the richness too. So complex and dense. Layers and layers in a potion that feels like it moves without urgency. Decadent and glorious. Emphatically awesome.

98 POINTS

Jane Faulkner - Halliday Wine Companion

A lot of emotion can be elicited in a glass of rare, as only a time can produce this. Extraordinarily complex with its umami flavours, brittle burnt toffee, Eccles cakes and an array of Middle Eastern baking spices. Beautifully composed, fresh and a joy to behold. And drink.

98 POINTS

Huon Hooke - The Real Review

Very dense, dark glass-staining colour: black-brown at the core and tawny at the meniscus, with tinges of green and yellow. The bouquet is tremendosuly concentrated and old, with great complexity, rancio having taken over almost all the muscat fruit aroma, which is more evident in the mouth. The palate is extremely rich, concentrated and essency, luscious and powerful, with tremendous impact and persistence, viscosity and gravitas, the extended finish concluding with nicely drying after-effects that invite another sip. It's not perfectly fresh perhaps, but still a phenomenal wine.

98 POINTS

Huon Hooke - The Real Review

(500ml) Very deep tawny-brown colour with black tints, a little yellow-green in the rim. The bouquet is very rich and toffee/raisin-like with rum-and-raisin chocolate notes and the palate is tremendously rich, viscous, concentrated, powerful and long. It stains the glass - a profound wine of great age and quality. Great balance and seamless palate texture. An outstanding muscat.

98 POINTS

Huon Hooke - The Real Review

(500ml) Deep dark tawny brown colour with a green-yellow rim. It stains the glass. A very old, unctuous muscat with tremendous depth of character and length of palate. There is a wonderful combination of younger fruity muscat and very old, mellow flavour that lingers on and on. The finish is enormous powerful and sustained. As dense as treacle and rich as the richest fruitcake. Wonderful.

2013 - Decanter World Wine Awards

Award: Gold - DWWA 2013