All Saints Estate triumphs with perfect score

The awards celebrate Australia’s best wines, winemakers, viticulturists and wineries.

Wine writer Jeni Port wrote in the Halliday Wine Companion, “the Museum Muscadelle is the stuff of dreams or, to be precise, history”.

“With base wines reaching back 100+ years, this offers a rare and privileged taste of extraordinary age, complexity and sheer hedonistic pleasure,” Ms Port wrote.

“Dark olive and walnut hues introduce a commanding, luscious fortified in dried fruits, caramel toffee, honey, chocolate praline, orange peel and a lasting, enticing rancio nuttiness.

“The art of the blender is on show, combining deep-set intensity of flavour with a remarkably clean, neutral spirit freshness.”

Sales and marketing director Angela Brown said the fortified Muscadelle was Australian history in a bottle.

“These fortified wines are aged in a modified solera system, which means the wines are a combination of young and 100-year-old material,” Angela said.

“The barrels are stored in various places across the castle building and are blended to create this incredible drop.

“The barrels are housed under the castle in a dungeon, which gets incredibly cold during winter, and over 40 degrees in summer, taking in all of those environmental elements.

“Those elements age the wine and give it its incredible taste.

“The All Saints Estate team are super proud to have earned accolades at the award ceremony.”

The awards ceremony was held at Ormond Hall in St Kilda, which Angela said was a nice opportunity for wine makers across Australia to unite.

“With everybody working extremely hard, it’s nice to stop and celebrate something,” she said.

“It was nice to catch up with industry colleagues, and taste wines from across the country.”

Sister winery St Leonards Vineyard was awarded four and a half stars in the eight table and fortified wines category.