It possesses superb intensity as well as palate presence with hints of honeysuckle, raisins, black tea, marmalade and toffee.

A clutch of Australian wines hover around perfection - this is one. Complex, rich and intense, it's heady with flavours of plum pudding, warm spice and muscatels, gliding across the palate to a super-long finish. Will stay fresh in the bottle for a few months once opened, if it lasts that long.

An old bottle of this wine, bottled before the words Rare or Topaque came into usage. Deep, dense, glass-staining brown-amber colour with a yellow-green rim. The bouquet is a riot of malt extract, burnt sugar, toffee and cold tealeaves, and it is syrupy and dense in the mouth, with wonderful lusciousnes and tremendous persistence. A glorious old liqueur tokay.

When it comes to Tokay, Campbell's Isabella is in a category all its own. This is classified as a rare Rutherglen and for good reason: with a base wine more than 60 years old its complex, ultra-rich and utterly gorgeous. It pours almost as thick as treacle and tastes of it too, with layers of flavour; Christmas cake, toffee, exotic spice and while super sweet and velvety on the palate it's beautifully balanced. Perfection in a glass. The name tokay is to be phased out in a few years and replaced with topaque because the Hungarians produce tokaji from the same place and won the right to use it.

An old bottle of this wine, bottled before the words Rare or Topaque came into usage. Deep, dense, glass-staining brown-amber colour with a yellow-green rim. The bouquet is a riot of malt extract, burnt sugar, toffee and cold tealeaves, and it is syrupy and dense in the mouth, with wonderful lusciousnes and tremendous persistence. A glorious old liqueur tokay.

When it comes to Tokay, Campbell's Isabella is in a category all its own. This is classified as a rare Rutherglen and for good reason: with a base wine more than 60 years old its complex, ultra-rich and utterly gorgeous. It pours almost as thick as treacle and tastes of it too, with layers of flavour; Christmas cake, toffee, exotic spice and while super sweet and velvety on the palate it's beautifully balanced. Perfection in a glass. The name tokay is to be phased out in a few years and replaced with topaque because the Hungarians produce tokaji from the same place and won the right to use it.

Dark chocolate is the first thing that comes at you from this amazing old wine, then the dark malt biscuit notes, some toasty elements and dried dates - complex and captivating. The palate is richly flavoured with the same collection of characters seen on the nose, add some treacle through the finish, the texture is elixir-like in its smooth richness. Amazing poise and length.

Testimony to the expert blending and great old reserves of the legendary house of Campbells, this dense, viscous, black topaque is charged with astounding complexity, yet retains impeccable balance and integration.

With an average age of more than 20 years, immense complexity and intensity are a given, but it's the remarkable balance and seamless integration that set this release apart, testimony to almost a century and a half of blending expertise. It's dark, dense and viscous, with fruit, acidity and sweetness all in grand proportions.

The dark mahogany and olive rim precedes a mind-blowingly powerful rich and complex wine at the top of the topaque tree. I'm sure this has become even more intense, and more compellingly textured, than previous tastings, yet isn't the slightest bit stale. I suppose it's just the sheer bliss of tasting these wines that causes me to write as if I have not previously encountered them.

Like dark toffee, this wine offers heady aromas of treacle and mocha, while the palate is intense, rich, sweet and opulent. A rich and complex wine to be paired with the most hedonistic offerings.