Rutherglen Muscat, Chambers Rosewood

Rutherglen, Victoria, Australia

Deep amber with copper glints, this Muscat shimmers with aromas of raisins, toffee, orange peel and spice. The palate is luscious and mouth-coating — layers of caramel, fig and coffee unfolding into a long, warming finish that balances sweetness with lift. Silky, decadent and endlessly complex, it’s the kind of wine that makes time slow down.

For when: dessert feels optional but indulgence isn’t.
Pairs with: sticky toffee pudding, dark chocolate, or blue cheese and quiet company.
If this wine were a memory, it’d be the scent of honey and woodsmoke on a winter night.

From the legendary Chambers family, who’ve been making fortifieds in Rutherglen since 1858, this Muscat is crafted from late-harvested Muscat à Petits Grains Rouge grapes, fortified and aged in old oak casks for years under the warm Australian sun. It’s an iconic expression of the style — rich, historic, and utterly captivating.

Whats in the bottle
100% Muscat à Petits Grains Rouge

Notable Awards
Gold Medal - Sommelier Wine Awards 2024

£16.00
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  • Producer Information
  • Winemaking

Stephen Chambers is the sixth generation of his family to make wine at the Rosewood winery, where he took over winemaking in 2001. This venerable winery, founded in 1858 by William Chambers, is one of the most fabled in Rutherglen. A charming, northeastern Victorian town, Rutherglen still speaks of the gold rush, which led to the development of its wine industry in the 1850s.

Chambers Rosewood makes distinctive yet classical wines from their 50 hectares of vineyards. The Rutherglen Muscats are made from the darker-skinned Muscat à Petits Grains Rouge variety (a mutation of Muscat à Petits Grains Blanc) and winemaking has been subtly changed in recent years to make fresher, cleaner wines. Each vineyard plot is fermented separately in closed, stainless steel tanks to preserve the grapes’ perfumes. Fermentation is stopped when the must reaches between 14.5 and 15.5 Baumé (potential alcohol), by adding neutral grape spirit as is traditional in fortified wine production. Upon settling, the wine is racked and placed into old oak casks (from 10 to 100-years-old, and 225 litres up to 5,000 litres in size) until required for blending. The average age of the Rutherglen Muscat blend is four years, and this has increased in recent years as new vineyards have come into production. In exceptional vintages, grapes from Chambers Rosewood’s low-yielding centenarian vines are used for the ‘Old Vine Muscat’, made using a separate, special solera.

Harvest of the grapes for this wine commences once the fruit reaches a ripeness of 16 baumé. At this stage the grapes will have some variation throughout the bunches, with some being plump, while others showing signs of grape shrivel. Once a parcel of grape is harvested, it is destemmed and the must placed into a closed stainless steel fermentation tank. The amount of fermentation is dependent upon the final baumé level of the parcel, and it occurs around 24 hours after harvest and a soak on skins. Once fermentation has commenced and the sugar level has fallen to between 14 and 15 baumé the grapes are pressed with the fermenting juice and fortified with neutral grape wine spirit (95.8 to 96.2%). The resultant wine is then settled in stainless steel tanks and then racked into old oak casks, which range in size between 220 to 5500 litres. The wines are kept as single vintage and vineyard parcels until blending.

Rutherglen Muscat, Chambers Rosewood

£16.00

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