Morris

Old Premium Rare Liqueur Muscat 500mL

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  Vintage Non Vintage
  98 points

Morris is my house rare, because I adore it and because it s $57 at Dan Murphy s, making two 500mL bottles the same price as a single 375mL of most other rares. It s a travesty that they can make a wine of more than twenty years average age and sell it at this price, but the most bewildering thing is that most wine lovers don t even know about it. It s black in hue and packed with profound complexity of age in notes of black olives and salty liquorice, held in impeccable balance by the freshness of marmalade and fig paste and the rich honeyed sweetness of plum pudding. Seamless and brilliant.

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  Vintage Non Vintage
  99 points 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.