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Lopez de Heredia
 Lopez de Heredia is one of the famed estates of Rioja. Their dedication to bottle aging wines before release is unparalleled. The past twenty years, the demand for Lopez has skyrocketed so much that now the winery only releases tiny amounts of their Gran Reservas each year. These are pristine bottles, direct from the property that have been carefully aged to deliver the optimum drinking experience for 48 to 50 year old wines.
Lopez de Heredia Vina Tondonia Gran Reserva Rioja Blanco 1973 (750ml)
(Direct from the Winery 2021 Release)
97WA
Price: $1,200 per bottle
Sale Price: $999 per bottle
#3493
Wine Advocate, Luis Gutierrez:
The 1973 Vina Tondonia Blanco Gran Reserva is so sublime, so complete and natural that it may bring tears to the eyes. It has a complex bouquet of beeswax, lanolin, lemon curd and almond that is effortlessly combined. The palate is nigh-perfectly balanced with very good weight. It has a seamless waxy texture and a peacock’s tail of almond, creme brulee, marzipan and dried apricot. There is a beguiling sense of completeness here. Heaven in a glass, and one of the finest Tondonia Blancos I have encountered. Drink now-2020+
Lopez de Heredia Vina Tondonia Gran Reserva Rioja 1970 (750ml)
(Direct from the Winery 2021 Release)
97WA
Price: $1,500 per bottle
Sale Price: $1,250 per bottle
#1631035
Wine Advocate, Neal Martin:
The 1970 Vina Tondonia Gran Reserva has a wonderful bouquet that transports you directly to the vineyard: scents of gravel, wild mushroom, cherries and dusty attic. The palate is beautifully balanced with fine tannins and thrilling, almost rapier-like acidity. There are notes of decayed red berry fruit, sour lemon, rosemary and sage. The finish is rustic but so full of energy, with hints of orange peel on the finish. Wonderful.
Lopez de Heredia Vina Tondonia Rioja Gran Reserva 1968 (750ml)
(Direct from the Winery 2019 Release)
95WA
Price: $1,500 per bottle
Sale Price: $1,250 per bottle
#1631063
Wine Advocate, Neal Martin:
Moving on to the reds, the 1968 Vina Tondonia Gran Reserva has a delicate nose of black currant infusion tea, dried flowers, leather and candied orange peel that is beautifully defined, but perhaps not as intense as the 1970. The palate is seamless and weightless on the entry with perfect acidity and delicate “traces” of flavors such as tart cherry, cola and leather. It constitutes a textural Rioja rather than one that delivers flavors on a plate. This is sublime classic Rioja. Drink now-2020+.
Pepe Raventos
 Only 849 Magnums were produced of this amazing Spanish Sparkling Wine from a Master in the Cava region - Pepe Raventos.
Pepe has taken his family's firm and completely shifted it from a volume property to one of the most highly regarded producers in Cava. However, in Pepe's strive towards quality and modernity, he has chosen to leave the Cava appellation due to the too loose of restrictions in the category and outdated limiting restrictions as well. The results are some of the most compelling sparkling wines produced outside of Champagne.
Mas del Serral is Raventos's top wine and is only produced in magnum. This is the epitome of old-vine in Cava, produced biodynamically. The wine is powerful and bold, loaded with citrus elements and stoniness that reminds of intense chablis. This is truly unique.
Pepe Raventos Vi Escumos de Qualitat Mas del Serral 2009 (1.5L)
99D
Price: $315 per magnum in individual wood box
#1351302
Decanter, Pedro Ballesteros MW:
The most refined Spanish sparkling wine I have ever tasted. Despite having been aged for 17 months in vat and 100 months in bottle, the wine shows pristine fruit, intriguing stone aromas, zesty.
Seppeltsfield
 We have only a handful of bottles left of the legendary 1920 and 1921 Vintages of Seppeltsfield’s Para Vintage Tawny. All bottles are direct from the estate and are packed in an individual wood box that comes with a certificate of authenticity.
This is a piece of history, a liquid time capsule that is truly one of the most unique wines we have to offer right now. Bottled in 100ml bottles, this is the ultimate stocking stuffer! Needless to say, this is also one of the most indulgent and hedonistic pleasures one can experience. Quantities are extremely limited.
Seppeltsfield Para Vintage Tawny 1920 (100ml)
100WE / 100JH
Price: $999 per 100ml bottle
Sale Price: $875 per 100ml bottle
Each bottle is numbered and comes in a wood collectors box with a certificate of authenticity.
#3617076
Wine Enthusiast, Christina Pickard:
Seppeltsfield's Centennial wines have been released annually for past 140 years and are believed to be the only single-vintage wines with such unbroken lineage on the planet. While the full composition is unknown, this now 101-year-old wine is composed primarily of Shiraz and Grenache and fortified with grape spirit. Resembling molasses in both color and texture, it is deeply evocative—a bottomless well of aroma and flavor that goes on and on: first chocolate, dates and praline, then baking spice and coffee beans, then tree sap, forest floor and the dusty spine of an old book. Intensely concentrated yet extraordinarily fresh, it is like drinking the essence of the past, a time in Australia just after WWI when hope was in the air. This is an exceptionally rare beauty that will outlive all of us.
Seppeltsfield Para Vintage Tawny 1921 (100ml)
100WA / 99JH
Price: $999 per 100ml bottle
Sale Price: $875 per 100ml bottle
Each bottle is numbered and comes in a wood collectors box with a certificate of authenticity.
#3617077
Wine Advocate, Joe Czerwinski:
The 1921 Centennial Collection Para Port Vintage Tawny (available by application to the winery, allow several weeks for preparation and bottling) is dark amber, almost walnut-like in color, with subtle hints of green at the rim and mahogany at the core. Walnuts pop up again in the aromas, joined by molasses, espresso, and rancio, but also hints of potpourri and even some red raspberries. Full-bodied, viscous and seductively intense, the wine gently yet firmly dominates the palate, twisting into a bittersweet dark-chocolate finish that lingers for minutes, leaving quivering tastebuds in its wake. As the wine is essentially bottled to order, minor variation is to be expected, depending on when the wine is purchased—but in the context of 100 years of aging, any differences should be minimal.
Best known for its incomparable roster of fortified wines, including tawnies going back to the 1870s, Seppeltsfield is making a concerted push into dry table wines. The latest releases include debut bottlings of The Northing Shiraz (2019), from a grower's vineyard in Marananga, and The Great Terraced Vineyard Grenache (2020), from a famous contour-planted hillside vineyard near the winery. Lovers of old fortifieds won't want to miss the 100-point 1921 Centennial Collection Para Port Vintage Tawny, which the winery will bottle to order in 100-milliliter (AU$700) or 375-milliliter bottles (AU$2000). For anyone with milestone years to celebrate, the winery's website offers Centennial Collection tawnies from 1981 back to 1882.
Schloss Gobelsburg
 To celebrate the tradition and culture of 850 years of winemaking, a very special wine was produced by Schloss Gobelsburg. This wine, the “50 Year Tradition”, was blended from vintages of the past 50 years of the estate.
Winemaker Michael Moosbrugger says “In past years, I traveled to Madeira and Jerez and a certain part of this wine is inspired by these travels. At the right moment the Abbott came to visit and I asked him if he would be open to taking stocks from the monk’s library cellar to produce a wine to commemorate this occasion. The library cellar is rare, and includes 15,000 bottles dating back to the 1940s. We made a few trials to see if this concept of blending these wines was possible. This is a once in a lifetime project.”
“Regarding the 50 Year Tradition, the drinkability is really good. It’s very dry and complex – a freshness on one side, but with a feeling of maturity on the other side. For me, it is completely new.”
Schloss Gobelsburg 'Tradition Heritage' Cuvee 50 Years NV
99JS
Price: $225 per bottle
Sale Price: $180 per bottle
OWC6
#1660324
Stuart Pigott, James Suckling.com:
Incredibly deep and complex, this has all the mystery of great white wines that have matured for decades in the bottle, but is still lively. Delicate candied-citrus, baked-apple and honeycomb aromas, but the more you smell this the more you find in it! Sensational concentration and finesse through the long, filigree finish. This limited-production blend includes wines from 31 vintages over five decades, going back to 1970. There are also 9 grape varieties in there, gruner veltliner and riesling forming the base. Drink or hold. - SP
The wine contains:
Vintage 1970 - 1979. . . . . . . 11% (1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1977, 1979)
Vintage 1980 - 1989 . . . . . . 12% (1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1989)
Vintage 1990 - 1999 . . . . . . 7% (1991, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999)
Vintage 2000 - 2009 . . . . . . 37% (2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, held in cask)
Vintage 2010 - 2017 . . . . . . 33% (2011, 2013, 2014, 2017, all held in cask)
Grape varieties: Grüner Veltliner, Riesling, Grüner Sylvaner, Muskat Sylvaner, Riesling Sylvaner, Welschriesling, Muskat Ottonel, Traminer, Muskateller.
Pierre Peters Heritage NV
 Once in a lifetime Champagne, the extremely limited Pierre Peters Heritage, which is a blend of wines from 2010 back to 1921 was created to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of Champagne Pierre Peters. This wine will never be duplicated by Pierre Peters again.
There are only 1,500 bottles and 60 magnums released from the domaine.
The wine is distinctively Pierre Peters and has the energy and intensity of Chetillons with added layers of complexity that unfold in the glass and on the palate. The depth and umami flavors that evolve from this wine are like no other. This is a marvelous study on how complex and wonderful Chardonnay Champagnes can age.
Heritage is a one of a kind blend created by disgorging the oldest bottles in the family's reserve cellar and blending them with a selection of reserve wines from Chetillons with the final third of the blend coming from the best of the 2010 Chetillons.
Pierre Peters Heritage NV
99WA / 98VM
Price: Upon Request - Simply reply to this email (customerservice@morrellwine.com) with your interest.
Wine Advocate, William Kelley:
An extraordinary wine ... the NV Brut Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru Heritage is a one-off to celebrate the estate's centenary that spent eight years sur lattes. Some 60% of the cuvée derives from vintages 1921, 1947, 1959, 1964, 1966, 1969, 1973, 1976, 1979, 1982, 1985, 1988, 1990, 1996, 2002, 2004 and 2006, with the remaining third made by of the 2010 Les Chétillons. Péters told me that even his father had never tasted some of the older vintages that were "remis en cercles" to create the blend. Unfurling in the glass with a complex bouquet that mingles notes of ripe citrus, dried white flowers and freshly baked bread with nuances of wheat toast, beeswax and walnut oil, it's full-bodied, multidimensional and strikingly complete, with immense reserves of concentration and chalky dry extract, lively acids and a long, expansive finish. Despite the inclusion of so much venerable reserve wine, it's remarkably youthful and vibrant. While it will be next to impossible to find, any readers who have the opportunity shouldn't hesitate.
Vinous, Antonio Galloni:
A singular and positively riveting Champagne, the NV Pierre Péters Heritage is a special cuvée created to celebrate the first vintage made by Rodolphe Péters’ great-grandfather, Camille, in 1921. Rodolphe Péters dug deep into his family’s cellar for this Champagne. Essentially, Heritage is blended from three tiers of wine, more or less in equal proportion. These are: 1) a base of 2010 Chétillons, 2) a blend of Chétillons from 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008, and 3) a blend of the domaine’s Champagnes from 1996 all the way back to 1921, encompassing Chétillons, Special Club and Vintage bottlings, depending on what was available. The older vintages confer tremendous layers of nuance to a Champagne that stands out for its creamy resonance, depth.
Petrus
 Petrus is perhaps the most known wine in the world. This iconic property from Pomerol, Bordeaux is regarded to consistently be the finest expression of Merlot. The wines are collectible and have a status that makes it the first “cult wine”. The 2017 vintage marks the last time the property has produced Petrus in large format bottles greater than a magnum. That means double-magnums and imperials have stopped being bottled by Petrus, making these bottles some of the few left available in the market today.
Petrus 1989 (6L)
100WA / 100WS / 100VM
Price: $79,545 per Imperial
Sale Price: $70,000 per Imperial
#3173
Wine Spectator, James Suckling:
I have always loved this wine. It's a giant, yet also sophisticated and reserved. Still dark-ruby colored, with beautiful aromas of fruits and spices. Full-bodied, with opulent fruit and a depth of flavor that lasts for minutes on the palate. Loads of tobacco and fruit.--Pétrus non-blind vertical. Best after 2010.
Petrus 2009 (6L)
100WA
Price: $79,545 per Imperial
Sale Price: $70,000 per Imperial
#3394
Wine Advocate, Robert Parker:
Medium to deep garnet colored, the 2009 Petrus gives up glorious scents of preserved plums, redcurrant jelly, dried rose petals, blackberry compote and mulberries with touches of licorice, Chinese five spice and fragrant earth. Full, rich, plushly textured and oh-so-decadent, it reveals layer upon layer of spice box, black fruit and ferrous notions, finishing long and fragrant.
Petrus 2017 (3L)
98+WA
Price: $40,000 per Double-Magnum
#4343
Wine Advocate, Lisa Perrotti-Brown:
Deep garnet-purple in color, the 2017 Petrus comes galloping out of the glass with bold, expressive notions of Black Forest cake, blueberry preserves and Christmas pudding with nuances of molten chocolate, Chinese five spice, candied violets, licorice and kirsch plus wafts of roses and cinnamon stick. Full-bodied, rich, spicy and fantastically concentrated, the palate has compelling freshness and a solid base of wonderfully ripe, velvety tannins, finishing very long and opulent. The aromatics at this youthful stage are atypical for Petrus and quite stunning—this 2017 is a bombshell! Furthermore, it is a unique style for this estate and one avid collectors should seek out!
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