Yalumba - Museum Reserve Muscat (375ml)
Price: $20.15
Sale Price: $15.99
Half Bottle
Producer | Yalumba |
Country | Australia |
Region | Victoria |
Subregion | Rutherglen |
Varietal | Muscat Rouge |
Sku | 36995 |
Yalumba Description
WINEMAKING/VITICULTURE: Made predominantly from the brown, red and black sports of the Muscat a Petite Grains grape variety. Fermented on skins very briefly to soften and release the juice and flavors from the shrivelled and partially raisined berries. After draining and pressing of skins, the fermentation is arrested by fortification with neutral grape spirit to retain the varietal flavours and liqueur sweetness in the final wine. The vintage wines are then put aside into small oak barrels to mature, producing a complexity of raisined and fruitcake flavours. After many years of maturation, a selection of older and younger wines are judiciously blended to produce a complexity and balance of fruit and aged characters. The base blend, from which the Museum Muscat is bottled, is regularly re-blended to perpetuate the consistency and complexity of this classic style from year to year.
COMMENTS: This luscious dessert wine is deep amber to tawny in color, with the classic perfumed aroma of the Muscat grape – rose petal, ginger and orange peel, overlaid by raisined fruits. The palate has a soft, luscious texture, and is richly flavored, displaying a balance of fruit and aged characters. The finish is full and rich with raisined fruit cake and spice flavors lingering on the aftertaste.
Wine Advocate: 96 Points
The non-vintage Museum Reserve Muscat is exotic, full-bodied, rich, and sweet. It spent 7 years in wood, and was bottled from a solera system. This amber-hued, rich, unctuously-textured effort boasts luscious aromas and flavors of marmalade, figs, chocolate, melted caramel, toffee, and prunes. Once again, Australia proves this country is hard to beat when it comes to their fortified after-dinner wines, which still sell for a song.
Wine Spectator: 93 Points
Silky and seductive, sweet, rich and loaded with flavor, offering coffee, walnut, orange peel, cherry, cream and exotic spice flavors that just don't quit. Drink now through 2020. 3,500 cases made.