Just a few drops of this wine splashed into a glass will tell you it's an elixir, staining where it falls and releasing its great engine of sweet scent. Fill the glass a little further and you have an hour or two's meditative sniffing and sipping to look forward to. The harmony and seduction are remarkable, as you tick off dried fruit after dried fruit; the wine is truly tongue-coating as few are, and the aftertaste of treacle and tar lingers saltily for minutes. Despite the huge levels of sweetness, the extracts and essences of flavour contrive to make this wine seem, 30 seconds or so after you swallow, almost dry. A Rutherglen monument. 97 pts Platinum Best in Show Decanter World Wine Awards 2020
