Originating from the name of the Barossa Valley’s main river, ‘Para’ has remained resolute within Australian wine culture for over 11 decades. Featuring on numerous fortified releases over the course of time, it has crossed three ownership eras; B Seppelt & Sons, Treasury Wine Estates and modern day Seppeltsfield, with Tawny bottlings featuring the insignia being traced back to the beginning of the 20th century.
It remains today Australia’s longest standing wine label in continual production.
Made every year since 1878, the 100 Year Old Para Vintage Tawny is the longest unbroken line of single vintage wines in the world, and the world’s only unbroken lineage of single vintage Tawny
100 Points Halliday Wine Companion
In 1925, New York overtook London to become the largest city in the world, Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler’s influence was rising, F. Scott Fitzgerald released The Great Gatsby, the Jazz Age was in full swing, and this was tucked away in barrel. That never ceases to blow my mind. It’s a singularity of aroma and flavour. Dried fruits in an aqueous solution, candied nuts, mahogany, molasses, marzipan, fancy cigar lounge, espresso liqueur, candied figs and prunes, wood spice and citrus rind. It’s in constant movement; light filters in and out, highlighting certain characters, casting shadow on others, in an ever-moving state of change. It’s kinetic and endlessly complex and there ain’t nothing else like it in the world. It really is a national treasure. Drink 2025-2055.
100 Points Andrew Caillard MW
Deep colour. Intense lifted ground coffee, praline, panforte aromas with smoky, liquorice, aniseed, cloves notes. Generously concentrated, dense and richly flavoured with fresh espresso, dark chocolate, orange rind, sandalwood cloves notes, fine supple textures, superb mid-palate volume/ viscosity and a persistent pure aniseed cut. Finishes smoky and long with apricot, panforte notes. A wonderful expression of Australian wine history and ambition. A living curio to share.
99 Points James Suckling
Only one puncheon of this wine was made in 1925, as with subsequent vintages, with the intention of releasing the wine after 100 years. It has gone almost motor-oil black with an intensely complex nose, showing layers of baking spices, dried fruit, chocolate, citrus peel and oil. The palate is so complex and thick, with surprisingly high and fresh acidity that comes from concentration in the barrel, giving toasted nuts, baking spices, espresso, cocoa and burnt butter. This is a truly rare and iconic wine with a great deal of complexity and poise. Exceptional. Drink or hold.