It’s something right out of wine’s left field, but I really enjoy the spicy, chocolatey taste of De Bortoli’s unique Black Noble, a fortified and oak-matured blend of many different vintages of highly botrytised semillon. As De Bortoli suggest themselves, the wine is more like a north-east Victorian tokay or a black Spanish pedro ximines sherry than anything else I can think of. Dark toffee, coffee and licorice flavours slowly emerge from this deep amber nectar, which I rate at 18.5 and whose price of around $29 per half bottle is generous indeed.
