Morris Old Premium Rare Liqueur Topaque NV 500ml

99 POINTS

Ned Goodwin - Halliday Wine Companion

The colour is an astounding density. A myriad of dried fruit panettone, lapsang, five-spice, hoisin and roasted walnut doused in espresso and bitter chocolate, reel from a core of thoroughbred intensity. An immense wine that dichotomously, despite its sheer weight, almost evaporates from the tip of the tongue and surfaces of the cheeks, while lingering endlessly.

99 POINTS

James Halliday - Halliday Wine Companion

Much deeper aged olive-brown colour; the wine viscous when poured; while rich and lusciously mouthfilling, the richness is balanced to perfection by nutty/smoky rancio characters highlighting the array of spices, burnt toffee and tea-leaf; exceptional length. A national treasure. Cork.

98 POINTS

Stuart Knox - The Real Review

Opaque core into a deep and intense mahogany-brown rim, it coats and stains the glass for minutes. Dark chocolate, molasses, dark soy and rancio aromatics. Viscous, oily really, it moves slowly and coats the palate completely. Intensity is mind-blowing with layers of toffee, malt extract, raisins on the sweet side, all counterbalanced with savoury umami characters of aged dark soy and yeast extract. Goes forever on the palate, you don’t need much but you'll definitely want to lick the inside of the glass

98 POINTS

James Suckling

Almost incomprehensible concentration here. This has a deeply aged, toasty and dark nutty edge on the nose. Roasted honey, dark chocolate, coffee and roasted malt, too. The palate has implausibly concentrated flavors that follow the same threads shown on the nose, all swooningly sweet and rich. Yet, somehow it extrudes and balances to the point of lightness, leaving a trail of long, dark and toasted flavors of almonds. Extremely impressive and complex.

98 POINTS

Huon Hooke - The Real Review

Very dense, glass-stainingly thick in the glass, an extraordinary opaque black/brown/green colour. The bouquet is super-concentrated and rich, like a boiled-down essence of a wine. There are very old, perhaps even slightly stale, traces overlying molasses, toffee and malt aromas and flavours, the palate extraordinarily rich and dense, viscous to the degree that it moves very slowly when swirled. It's very sweet and luscious, with notes of honey, toffee, caramel, malt and much more besides. An amazing wine. All you need is a tiny amount.

97 POINTS

Huon Hooke - The Real Review

(500ml) Very deep, dark, glass-staining colour with black tints and a yellow rim. The bouquet is wonderfully deep and concentrated with densely concentrated muscat fruit character as well as very aged rancio and toffee and all sorts of flavours, which linger on the palate with enormous persistence. A great wine.

97 POINTS

2018 - Decanter World Wine Awards

Amazing savoury characters to the nose with burnt toffee, treacle, brazil nut and pecan, the palate has hugely complex with coffee, candied orange, clove, vanilla, lovely acidity underlining the sweetness, lovely long creamy finish. Award: Platinum - DWWA 2018

2015 - Decanter World Wine Awards

A gloriously unctuous offering, with a nose of roasted nuts, figs, prunes, black syrup and caramel, followed up by a rich, rounded, slightly savoury, rancio-flavoured palate decorated with notes of coffee and raisins. Something of a guilty pleasure. Award: Gold - DWWA 2015