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Sommelier Wine Awards
2026
SWA Fortified Wine of the Year
2025
SWA Fortified Wine Producer of the Year
SWA Critics Choice
SWA By the Glass
SWA Pub & Bar
What an amazing privilege and honour to be the winner of this prestigious award. Thank you to all involved and to our amazing UK Distributors Liberty Wines
GOLD - Old Vine Muscat
Chambers Rosewood, Old Vine Rutherglen Muscat NV, Rutherglen, Victoria, Australia
'Notes of marzipan and toasted walnuts, with sweet citrus peel, toffee and caramel.'
Emma Denney, Claridges.
'Great balance, with vibrant peppery spice, alongside chocolate cinnamon rolls.'
Sam Weatherill, etch. by Steven Edwards.
'Concentrated, with notes of dried rose, espresso, rum-soaked raisins and molasses, leading to intense layers of dark fruit compote on the palate, with nutty oak, burnt sugar and balanced acidity. Pair with Roquefort or Stilton with walnut bread.'
Emanuel Pesqueira, Pesqueira Consulting & Management.
International Trade UK Liberty Wines
This Australian Rutherglen-rooted serial-award-winning fortified wine producer also shone at the SWAs this year, clinching the title in a closely run taste-off with Portugal’s Quinta da Pedra Alta, nudging Chambers Rosewood Old Vine Rutherglen Muscat NV over the finish line just ahead for the Gold. However, this delicious Muscat also picked up Critics' Choice and commendations for By the Glass and Pub & Bar wine, finally delivering quite the haul of medals. Emma Denney of Claridge's was one of many who enjoyed “notes of marzipan and toasted walnuts, with sweet citrus peel, toffee and caramel”. Sommeliers Wine Awards 2025
The Real Review
95/100 Huon Hooke
Deep amber/tawny with a pronounced yellow rim, and the bouquet is wonderfully powerful, rich and complex muscat nose. The sweetness is massive and there is a touch of bitterness at the finish which doesn't get in the way at all, helping to clean the aftertaste. A very old, very sweet and concentrated muscat. This is great value at the price. 03 Feb 2025
Medium to deep red colour with a tawny tint and some yellow in the rim. The bouquet reveals floral, rose-bush elements as well as some age, and good muscat fruit. The palate is intense and lively with bright acidity, the mid-palate leaner than some and showing a lot of raisined fruit character - on both nose and palate. Very sweet - a real 'crowd pleaser'. 17 May 2018
Decanter World Wine Awards - 2026 GOLD
International Wine Challenge - 2026 SILVER 94/100
James Suckling
“While this is the youngest average age across the melody of deep soleras, it remains a formidable wine all the same. Albeit, refreshing because of its youth. Rum and raisin ice cream, sticky date and brulee. No rancio at this stage, but drink this chilled and swoon. An introduction to some of the most profound wines in the world, here at this address. Drinkable now and into the distant future, a few lives away. Screw cap.” JAMES SUCKLING Ned Goodwin MW 2023
”Deep amber in appearance. The nose gives aromas of candied burnt oranges, molasses and sultana raisins. The palate is fresh with a medium body, showing notes of baking spices, toffee and spiced baked apples. Delicious and fresh. Drink or hold”. JAMES SUCKLING - October 17 2024
Halliday Wine Companion
This, the second or classic fortified level, is where Rutherglen muscat gets interesting. The average age of the solera is 10 years; flavours become a little more concentrated, sweeter and complex – delightfully so. Blends the prettiness of the muscat grape – the honeyed nougat and orange peel – with honeyed cake, raisin, fig and wood-aged flavours, all dressed fresh and clean. Superb value. 375ml. Jeni Port - Halliday Wine Companion 2026
“This is where Muscat starts to get serious, moving up a notch in average age, in colour (tawny), in flavour intensity, length and sweet deliciousness. Equivalent to the Classic tier, old-vine muscat from Chambers goes that extra yard in depth and complexity, in sticky date pudding, dried fig, nutty toffee, dried fruit panforte with a lilting rose petal prettiness. And so clean and bright. Great value.” Jeni Port - Halliday Wine Companion 2025
“Slowly moving up a notch in age, complexity, depth of flavour and stickiness. Suffice to say, this is a fortified brimming with a seamless beauty and richness of expression” Halliday Wine Companion 2022 Jeni Port
"Mid-walnut hue, with the last faint vestiges of red. A wine that immediately commands attention and respect with its racy touch of rancio to the liqueur raisins of a deluxe Christmas pudding centre stage, backed by spices of every known kind." James Halliday
Matthew Jukes
...."Made from older vines, but still retaining freshness and lift on the palate and finish, this is a halfway house style Muscat, between the fresh, open styles and the ancient medicinal ones, and it keeps its figgy, rose petal and walnut notes alive but combines them with a deeper, darker core than last years’ wine.” Matthew Jukes
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Alcohol: 17.8 % Glucose & Fructos 293.9g/L pH: 3.73 TA: 4.9 g/ L
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Muscat is made from the variety muscat à petits grains, which can range in colour from a green (white) grape through to black. The colour favoured for muscat production in Rutherglen is reddish-brown and is often referred to as muscat à petits grains rouge.
Prior to 2015 the fruit was hand harvested now it is machine harvested. Fruit is harvested at higher baumés (16º Bé plus preferred). The grapes are then de-stemmed with the resultant must and recovered raisons are placed into tank. Depending upon the disease status the must is either inoculated with yeast or a wild ferment allowed. Only a partial fermentation of the juice is undertaken (usually 2º to 3º Bé depending upon initial fruit ripeness). The fermentation will add colour and complexity to the wine. We tend to find that there is an increase in baumé in the initial 24 to 72 hours due liberation of sugar from raison rehydration, thus enabling a longer fermentation.
Once desired amount of sugar has been fermented, the must is placed into the press for juice extraction. The fermenting juice obtained is fortified with neutral grape spirit referred to as SVR (~ 96% alcohol; ) to 16% alcohol to arrest the fermentation. The neutral spirit is chosen to enable the fruit expression of the variety. The resultant wine is then placed into stainless steel tank for settling, then racked prior to cross flow filtration. The filtered wine is then adjusted to 18% alcohol before transfer to old, large casks for aging. Cask volume varies from 900 to 5000 litres.
Individual vintages and vineyards are kept as separate wines until blending. The Old Vine Muscat is a new addition to our Muscat Range fitting into the Classic Category in the classification system. It has taken over 10 years for us to build up the stock and manage the solera, which consists of a major part of this wine. The Old Vine Muscat initially was blend of 2001 and 2007 vintages. Wines of good to very good quality are selected for the Old Vine Muscat. Age is not considered a determinant of quality.
The wine is bottled on demand to ensure the best product possible.
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James Suckling
2023 Rating: 95While this is the youngest average age across the melody of deep soleras, it remains a formidable wine all the same. Albeit, refreshing because of its youth. Rum and raisin ice cream, sticky date and brulee. No rancio at this stage, but drink this chilled and swoon. An introduction to some of the most profound wines in the world, here at this address. Drinkable now and into the distant future, a few lives away. Screw cap. Ned Goodwin
2024 Rating: 93
”Deep amber in appearance. The nose gives aromas of candied burnt oranges, molasses and sultana raisins. The palate is fresh with a medium body, showing notes of baking spices, toffee and spiced baked apples. Delicious and fresh. Drink or hold” .JAMES SUCKLING - October 17 2024
Halliday Wine Companion
2023 Rating: 95
2022 Rating: 95
2021 Rating: 95This, the second or classic fortified level, is where Rutherglen muscat gets interesting. The average age of the solera is 10 years; flavours become a little more concentrated, sweeter and complex – delightfully so. Blends the prettiness of the muscat grape – the honeyed nougat and orange peel – with honeyed cake, raisin, fig and wood-aged flavours, all dressed fresh and clean. Superb value. 375ml. Jeni Port - Halliday Wine Companion 2026
“Old Vine equates to the Classic Rutherglen Muscat classification and is produced with a 3-stage solera: stages 1 and 3 in 2500L casks and stage 2 in 2 groups of barrels of varying ages. Slowly moving up a notch in age, complexity, depth of flavour and stickiness. Suffice to say, this is a fortified brimming with a seamless beauty and richness of expression. Layers of dried fig, dates, honey cake, toffee and raisin set a fresh and lively pace, aided by neutral spirit. Amazing value. 375ml.”
Jeni Port
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Sommelier Wine Awards - 2025 GOLD - Fortified Wine Producer of the Year
The Real Review - Huon Hooke - Recommended Rating: 95 Points
James Suckling - 2023 Rating: 95 2024 Rating: 93
Halliday Wine Companion - 2026 Rating: 95 2025 Rating: 95 2023 Rating: 95 2022 Rating: 95 2021 Rating: 95
Decanter World Wine Awards 2021 - (UK) Rating: 94
Wine Enthusiast 2021 (US) - Rating: 93
Sommelier Wine Awards 2020
