"Possibly Australia's most famous sweet white wine, and with good reason. Since its inception it has won a swag of awards and trophies. It's a complex and luscious wine that is beautifully balanced by a crisp finish."  Virgin Blue Voyeur Magazine, January 2007

DESSERT WINE INNOVATOR - Jeff Collerson hands out his Australia Day Wine Honours
"After tasting a 1958 vintage 'one-off' attempt by McWilliam’s to make a botrytis- affected sweet white wine, using the humdrum white grape pedro ximenez, Darren De Bortoli attempted to replicate the famous Sauternes of France in 1981. Using pedro, he failed because there was insufficient humidity but tried again the following year, this time with the superior semillon grape. De Bortoli’s 1982 Noble One remains recognised as the greatest sweet white made outside Europe and each vintage this brand sets the benchmark for which producers of all Australian dessert whites strive to reach." Jeff Collerson, Daily Telegraph, 26 January 2005

"Partner the crisp, distinctive taste of Australia’s native macadamia nut with the mouthcoating richness of the country’s signature dessert wine, and experience the ultimate in Australian luxury. The majestic macadamia is delicious on its own, or as the decadent addition to a rich, fruity Christmas cake, served, of course, with a glass of De Bortoli Noble One dessert wine. Hailed by wine guru James Halliday as 'the undisputed king of the stickies', this famous Australian icon puts the seal of gold on any special festive occasion." Australian Gourmet Traveller, December 2003

"I have no problems in placing the De Bortoli sauternes alongside Penfolds Grange Hermitage, the great north-east Victorian fortified mucats and tokays, the 20-year-old Lindemans semillons, the similarly aged Leo Buring Rhine rieslings, and the best Petaluma chardonnays, as Australia's greatest winestyles." James Halliday, Top 100, Weekend Australian, December 2001

"This wine single-handedly changed the way Australians thought about sweet white table wines, introducing botrytis cinerea to the mainstream winemaking..." Australia's Top 20 Benchmark Wines, WINE Magazine, Dec/Jan 1999/2000

"Some of the most respected wines from New South Wales' wine regions old and new, including arguably the finest product of any of Australia's inland irrigated zones: De Bortoli's tooth-rottingly sweet Semillon from botrytised grapes grown near Griffith." Hugh Johnson & Jancis Robinson, World Atlas of Wine - 5th Edition.