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4603 Murray Valley Highway, PO Box 44, Rutherglen, Victoria 3685, AUSTRALIA

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Campbells Winery

(02) 6033 6000

4603 Murray Valley Highway Rutherglen Victoria 3685

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Monday – Saturday 10am – 5pm
Sunday 10am – 4pm

Closed Good Friday & Christmas Day. Private tasting & bus group by appointment.

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Classic Rutherglen Muscat (500ml)

Rich, with complex raisin fruit

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DESCRIPTION

Tasting Notes

Deep amber with tawny hues. Rich fresh raisin fruit aromas with great depth and showing some dry ‘aged oak’ characters.

Classic Rutherglen Muscat Tasting Note

Wine Making

The grapes are left until late in the season to achieve optimum ripeness, ensuring maximum fruit flavour and a high degree of natural sweetness. Only selected parcels of premium fruit are added to the Classic Rutherglen Muscat solera. The wine that provides the basis of this solera dates back to the 1960’s. Wine can only be withdrawn from this solera when it matches exactly with the previous withdrawal thus ensuring the quality and consistency of style.

Cellaring

Blended through our solera for optimum flavour and balance, this wine will not improve with further cellaring and should ideally be enjoyed soon after opening. Excellent with vintage cheddar or blue vein cheeses, dried fruit and fresh nuts or as a memorable end to a meal with freshly brewed coffee.

Technical

The Grapes: Muscat a petit grains rouge (locally known as Rutherglen Brown Muscat) from Campbells Rutherglen vineyards.
Alcohol: 17.5%

Deep amber with tawny hues. Rich fresh raisin fruit aromas with great depth and showing some dry ‘aged oak’ characters.

Palate:

Great power and intense fruit with balance and elegance. There is evidence of mellow oak with the luscious lingering finish. Classic Rutherglen Muscat Tasting Note
The grapes are left until late in the season to achieve optimum ripeness, ensuring maximum fruit flavour and a high degree of natural sweetness. Only selected parcels of premium fruit are added to the Classic Rutherglen Muscat solera. The wine that provides the basis of this solera dates back to the 1960’s. Wine can only be withdrawn from this solera when it matches exactly with the previous withdrawal thus ensuring the quality and consistency of style.
Blended through our solera for optimum flavour and balance, this wine will not improve with further cellaring and should ideally be enjoyed soon after opening. Excellent with vintage cheddar or blue vein cheeses, dried fruit and fresh nuts or as a memorable end to a meal with freshly brewed coffee.
The Grapes: Muscat a petit grains rouge (locally known as Rutherglen Brown Muscat) from Campbells Rutherglen vineyards.
Alcohol: 17.5%
Classic in name and in character, displaying a beautiful, arresting complexity and depth of flavour matched to a freshness that beguiles. The average age is 12 years, well above the usual designated classification, and it brings butterscotch, fig, nougat, raisin and, overall, a fine and lasting elegance as per the house style. 500ml. - 95 points

Halliday Wine Companion 2025

The second Classic tier of the fortified classification displays the heart and soul of muscat with age (12 years average), a sense of raisiny youth, developing complexity and, importantly, freshness. They are all here and then some. Add the Campbells' elegant house style and you have one sublime fortified. 500ml. - Jeni Port - 95 points

Halliday Wine Companion 2024

"The wine that provides the basis for this solera dates back to the 1960s, and it has an average age of 15+ years, in keeping with the Rutherglen Muscat classification. Yes, it's a rich and powerful expression of what Classic represents, according to the classification, but there is so much more to explore. The house style is a fine elegance wedded to spirit freshness, that brings life to an incredible complexity of flavours: of rose oil, vanilla, walnut and treacle and a gorgeous array of dried fruits. 500ml."- Jeni Port - 95 points

Halliday Wine Companion 2023

"Quintessential classic in style, with a beautiful line of pure rose oil and dried-fruit aromatics on display throughout. The floral delicacy is a big part of Campbells' understated but concentrated muscat style. Builds layer after layer of flavour, yet remains fresh and vital. This is the blender's art in a glass. 500ml." - Jeni Port - 95 points

Halliday Wine Companion 2022

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