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De Bortoli Noble One 2003 ($24)

Although every region boasts its own champions of the style, De Bortoli’s honey-and-dried-apricot masterpiece, Noble One, is widely – and rightfully – regarded as Australia’s greatest sweet white wine and the 2003 release continues this wine’s long and proud lineage. Luscious, rich, satisfying and not at all cloying; bringing a half bottle (375ml. $24) of this wine to the next dinner party you attend will ensure repeat invites to future evenings, but great hosts will splash out on a full bottle (750ml, $45) for guests at their own soiree. Noble by name, noble by nature (incidentally, the noble refers to the botryitis – aka noble rot – which gives this wine its intense concentrated flavours) www.debortoli.com.au