A 150-Year-Old Wine

Seppeltsfield was established in 1851 in Australia’s Barossa Valley, by Silesian migrants fleeing religious persecution. Since 1878, it has laid down oak barrels of its finest “port” wine each year. This complete collection is unique and has received all the superlatives of the world’s most important wine critics including Robert Parker’s 100/100.

Fortified wine is made  by stopping the complete fermentation of grapes through the addition of almost pure alcohol which kills the yeast. The resultant wine has a degree of sweetness from the untransformed grapes. Normally tawny port (aged in barrel) is a blend of multiple vintages but the Seppeltsfield collection focuses on what the Portuguese call “Colheita” which is barrel aged single vintage port. And Seppeltsfield is the only winery to have created an unbroken collection of this magnitude. The wine gains in complexity and intensity the longer it remains in barrel.