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Birth Year Wines

Here is a list of some of the birth year wine lots in the current auction catalogue. Search for any birth year by using the 'search' button on the tool bar above the current auction page on the Sterling web site. If you have and trouble finding the vintage you need give Sterling a call on 1800 800 959 and we will try our best to track an example down.

HARDYS Reserve Bin M804 Vintage Port 1966
Vintage Port McLaren Vale
Estimate Per Bottle: 350-400

SIXTY - WOW - The Best? 60th Pressie - Guaranteed to WOW everyone at the Big Birthday celebration - Made when Aussie Fortified was King of the Vines 


GGR
0199
1 BOTTLE Cellar damaged labelCurrent Bid: $299

PENFOLDS Grange Hermitage Shiraz 1966
Shiraz South Australia
Estimate Per Bottle: 3000-3500

CLINIC CERTIFICATION - Buy with confidence


NIK
0615
1 BOTTLE Penfolds Red Wine Clinic 1998, capsule damage, label damageCurrent Bid: $2240
NIK
0616
1 BOTTLE Penfolds Red Wine Clinic 1998 & cellar damaged labelCurrent Bid: $2240

CHATEAU REYNELLA Vintage Port 1976
Vintage Port McLaren Vale
Estimate Per Bottle: 90-100
GGR
0203
1 BOTTLE Mid shoulder, cellar damaged label, corroded capsuleCurrent Bid: $49
GGR
0204
1 BOTTLE Mid shoulder, cellar damaged label, corroded capsuleCurrent Bid: $49

HARDYS Bin D380 Vintage Port 1976
Vintage Port McLaren Vale
Estimate Per Bottle: 250-300

FIFTY - WOW - The best? 50th Pressie - Guaranteed to WOW everyone at the Big Birthday celebration - Made when Aussie Fortified was King of the Vines 


GGR
0200
1 BOTTLE Level down 4.5cm from cork, cellar damaged labelCurrent Bid: $199
GGR
0201
1 BOTTLE Level down 3.5cm from cork, cellar damaged labelCurrent Bid: $199
GGR
0202
1 BOTTLE Level down 4.5cm from cork, cellar damaged labelCurrent Bid: $199

PENFOLDS Bin 28 Kalimna Shiraz 1976
Shiraz South Australia
Estimate Per Bottle: 330-350
NIK
0426
1 BOTTLE Into neck, cellar damaged labelCurrent Bid: $208
NIK
0427
1 BOTTLE Into neck, cellar damaged labelCurrent Bid: $240
NIK
0428
1 BOTTLE Very high shoulder, cellar damaged labelCurrent Bid: $200

PENFOLDS Grange Hermitage Shiraz 1976
Shiraz South Australia
Estimate Per Bottle: 2000-2200

CLINIC CERTIFICATION - Buy with confidence - RP100Consistently one of the most awesome wines ever made at Grange, this blend of 89% Shiraz and 11% Cabernet Sauvignon (13.9% alcohol) was the first Australian wine to cost $20 upon release. I have had this wine six separate times, every time rating it between 96 and 100. It had a phenomenal showing at Penfolds' Magill estate. The color is an opaque purple, the wine massive, full-bodied, and to me, the quintessential Grange. Notes of blackberry liqueur intermixed with cassis, charcoal, new saddle leather, and underbrush resonate from the glass. Huge, thick, unctuously textured, with extraordinary concentration but perfect harmony among all of its elements, this is a prodigious Grange that is still not fully mature. Anticipated maturity: 2004-2020. A legend for sure!


NIK
0164
1 BOTTLE Cellar damaged label, handwritten notes on labelCurrent Bid: $1120
GGR
0207
1 BOTTLE Very high shoulder & slight cellar damaged labelCurrent Bid: $2499
NIK
0606
1 BOTTLE Very high shoulder & label damageCurrent Bid: $1040

REDMAN Cabernet Sauvignon 1976
Cabernet Sauvignon Coonawarra
Estimate Per Bottle: 450-500
NIK
0639
1 MAGNUM Cellar damaged labelCurrent Bid: $288
NIK
0640
1 MAGNUM Into neck, cellar damaged labelCurrent Bid: $280
NIK
0641
1 MAGNUM High shoulder, cellar damaged label, weepingCurrent Bid: $240

WOLF BLASS Black Label Red Blend 1976
Red Blend South Australia
Estimate Per Bottle: 280-300

FORTUNATE FIFTY - Classic from the time when Wolf's Black Label RULED


NIK
0582
1 BOTTLE Mid shoulder, label damageCurrent Bid: $160

DE BORTOLI Sauternes Botrytis Semillon 1986
Botrytis Semillon Riverland
Estimate Per Bottle: 180-200
NIK
0566
1 BOTTLE Cellar damaged labelCurrent Bid: $128

PENFOLDS Bin 707 Cabernet Sauvignon 1986
Cabernet Sauvignon South Australia
Estimate Per Bottle: 600-650

THE "SIXES" ARE COMING! - 1986 BIN 707 - ONE OF THE  BEST? 


NIK
0601
1 BOTTLE Slight label damageCurrent Bid: $400
NIK
0602
1 BOTTLE Into neck, cellar damaged labelCurrent Bid: $400

PENFOLDS Bin 28 Kalimna Shiraz 1995
Shiraz South Australia
Estimate Per Bottle: 70-80
PHO
0002
1 BOTTLE Slight label damageCurrent Bid: $34

BILLECART SALMON Cuvee Elisabeth Salmon Brut Rose 1996
Brut Rose Champagne
Estimate Per Bottle: 600-650

LONG-TERM - RP95+The exquisite, well-made 1996 vintage Champagne is a backward, long-term proposition that remains 1-2 years away from its apogee. The 1996 Cuvee Elizabeth Salmon Rose reveals a light pink hue as well as vivid strawberry, raspberry, and berry fruit with hints of smoke, crushed rocks, and even a touch of rhubarb in the background. Boldly-flavored, with crisp acidity, with most of its character at the back of the mouth, this is a brilliant, medium to full-bodied vintage rose to drink over the 10+ years.


KMH
0282
1 BOTTLE Slight cellar damaged labelCurrent Bid: $326
KMH
0283
1 BOTTLE Slight cellar damaged labelCurrent Bid: $326
KMH
0284
1 BOTTLE Slight cellar damaged labelCurrent Bid: $326
KMH
0285
1 BOTTLE Slight cellar damaged labelCurrent Bid: $326
KMH
0286
1 BOTTLE Slight cellar damaged labelCurrent Bid: $326
KMH
0287
1 BOTTLE Slight cellar damaged labelCurrent Bid: $326
KMH
0288
1 BOTTLE Slight cellar damaged labelCurrent Bid: $326

BURGE FAMILY WINEMAKERS Draycott Reserve Shiraz 1996
Shiraz Barossa Valley
Estimate Per Bottle: 100-120
SHU
0498
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $60

HARDYS Eileen Hardy Shiraz 1996
Shiraz South Australia
Estimate Per Bottle: 130-150
SHU
0504
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $80

JACOB'S CREEK Limited Release Shiraz Cabernet 1996
Shiraz Cabernet Barossa Valley Coonawarra
Estimate Per Bottle: 50-60
SHU
0109
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $28
SHU
0110
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $28

PENFOLDS Block 42 Kalimna Cabernet Sauvignon 1996
Cabernet Sauvignon Barossa Valley
Estimate Per Bottle: 1000-1200

PENFOLDS FIVE STAR - Rewards of Patience - Drink now to 2045 - Deep brick crimson. Intense cassis, blackcurrant, polished leather, dark chocolate and sage aromas with espresso/leafy complexity. Lovely concentrated blackcurrant, dried plum, mulberry, and liquorice flavours, fine-grainy tannins, silken/supple mid-palate and underlying roasted chestnut/vanilla oak. Finishes cedar/leafy firm. Beautiful density, power and elegance. One of the great Penfolds reds of this decade. “A seriously good wine and developing very well. Has the blood lines of Bin 64.” (JH) “A towering monument to Barossa cabernet, built on dark, ripe fruit and load-bearing tannins. A celebration of the tanned muscular varietal character that old vines in warmer climes can bring.” (NR)


106
0894
1 BOTTLE Cellar damaged labelCurrent Bid: $560

PENFOLDS Grange Shiraz 1996
Shiraz South Australia
Estimate Per Bottle: 1500-1700

PERFECT 30 BIRTHDAY PRESSIE - MOVE FAST - ALL GONE - TOO GOOD TO LAST IN THE CELLAR 

PENFOLDS FIVE STAR - Rewards of Patience - Drink now to 2050   . Deep crimson. Fresh smoky coffee, mocha, blackberry and graphite aromas with liquorice herb garden/sage complexity. Generous and supple with dark cherry, blackberry, blackcurrant, dark plum fruits and fine plentiful chalky tannins, sweet mocha and vanilla oak, superb mid-palate density and salted liquorice/grilled nut complexity. Finishes grainy firm with persistent sweet apricot, mulberry fruit. One of the great vintages of the 1990s. 94 percent shiraz, 6 percent cabernet sauvignon. Kalimna Vineyard (Barossa Valley), Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale and Magill Estate (Adelaide). Maturation of Grange temporarily discontinued at Magill. “Gridlock tannins indicate the wine is caught between adolescence and maturity. Leave it for a while.” (JH) “Bright and elegant with balsamic blueberry and blackberry fruits and pretty cedar spice notes. Mature palate with attractive richness, fine firm tannins and savoury complexity.” (FW)


GGR
0208
1 BOTTLE Cellar damaged labelCurrent Bid: $999
JOS
0001
1 BOTTLE Faded label, slight label damageCurrent Bid: $383

PETER LEHMANN Stonewell Shiraz 1996
Shiraz Barossa Valley
Estimate Per Bottle: 120-140
SHU
0361
1 BOTTLE Cellar damaged labelCurrent Bid: $64
SHU
0362
1 BOTTLE Cellar damaged labelCurrent Bid: $64
SHU
0363
1 BOTTLE Cellar damaged labelCurrent Bid: $64
SHU
0364
1 BOTTLE Cellar damaged labelCurrent Bid: $64

PLANTAGENET Cabernet Sauvignon 1996
Cabernet Sauvignon Mount Barker
Estimate Per Bottle: 50-60

MOUNT BARKER CLASSIC - PLANTAGENET PIONEERS 


GIG
0095
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $26
GIG
0096
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $26
GIG
0097
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $26
GIG
0098
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $26
GIG
0099
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $26
GIG
0100
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $26

PLANTAGENET Shiraz 1996
Shiraz Mount Barker
Estimate Per Bottle: 50-60

MOUNT BARKER CLASSIC - PLANTAGENET PIONEERS 


GIG
0101
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $26
GIG
0102
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $26
GIG
0103
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $26
GIG
0104
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $26
GIG
0105
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $26
GIG
0106
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $26

ROCKFORD Cabernet Sauvignon 1996
Cabernet Sauvignon Barossa Valley
Estimate Per Bottle: 150-160
NIK
0623
1 BOTTLE Cellar damaged labelCurrent Bid: $96

BILLECART SALMON Le Clos Saint Hilaire Blanc de Noirs Brut 2005
Blanc de Noirs Brut Champagne
Estimate Per Bottle: 900-950
XDW
1675
1 BOTTLE Ex-cellarCurrent Bid: $879
XDW
1682
1 BOTTLE Ex-cellarCurrent Bid: $879
XDW
1683
1 BOTTLE Ex-cellarCurrent Bid: $879
XDV
0234
1 BOTTLE Ex-cellarCurrent Bid: $894
XDV
0236
1 BOTTLE Ex-cellarCurrent Bid: $894
XDV
0237
1 BOTTLE Ex-cellarCurrent Bid: $894

BAROSSA VALLEY ESTATE E&E Black Pepper Shiraz 2005
Shiraz Barossa Valley
Estimate Per Bottle: 150-160

THE BOY'S LINE UP - Another classic BLAST from the past - LINE UP? - Yep! Only 6 bottles of the E&E Black Pepper!


JOH
0098
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $96
JOH
0099
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $96
JOH
0100
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $96
JOH
0101
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $96
JOH
0102
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $96

KALLESKE Old Vine Grenache 2005
Grenache Barossa Valley
Estimate Per Bottle: 50-60
JMO
0327
1 BOTTLE5Current Bid: $25
JMO
0328
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $25
JMO
0329
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $25

PIERRO Reserve Cabernet Merlot 2005
Cabernet Merlot Margaret River
Estimate Per Bottle: 60-70

EXCELLENT - JH94Retains good hue; has excellent balance and structure to the array of cassis and blackcurrant fruit, finishing with fine tannins.


WAY
0252
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $35
WAY
0250
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $35
WAY
0247
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $35
WAY
0246
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $35
WAY
0245
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $35
WAY
0244
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $35

R WINES Anamorphosis Shiraz 2005
Shiraz Barossa Valley
Estimate Per Bottle: 1200-1300

TOUR de FORCE - RP96-99 - The Anamorphosis project features Shiraz from Kalimna in the Barossa Valley aged in new oak from four of France’s finest coopers. Like most of the other R Wines, it has exceptionally creative packaging. There will be 100 cases of the 2005 Shiraz which will spend 30 months in new French oak. It was sourced from vineyards with 40- and 100-year-old vines. Opaque purple in color, it offers up an intense perfume of pain grille, scorched earth, tar, licorice, blueberry, and blackberry liqueur. Voluptuous, thick rich, and full-bodied, it is a powerful yet seamless expression of Shiraz from a great terroir. It will age effortlessly for 20 years but can be enjoyed young because of its mammoth fruit. It is a winemaking tour de force.


TUR
0840
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $745

ROCKFORD Basket Press Shiraz 2005
Shiraz Barossa Valley
Estimate Per Bottle: 250-260

JH90 - Mid-garnet; surprisingly elegant and light-bodied; has good flavour and length but seems a fraction under-ripe; better than the other extreme.


PHO
0017
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $200
PHO
0018
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $200
PHO
0019
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $200
PHO
0020
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $160
PHO
0021
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $160
PHO
0022
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $160

SALTRAM The Journal Shiraz 2005
Shiraz Barossa Valley
Estimate Per Bottle: 100-110

BEAUTY - JH96Deep purple-red hue; has great equilibrium and harmony, partly reflecting its blend of Barossa/Eden Valley grapes and its 20 months in French oak, partly due to moderate alcohol, and a clear decision in the winery not to over-elaborate a wine of considerable beauty; 50 years under screwcap, half that under cork.


CWA
0031
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $58
CWA
0032
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $58
CWA
0033
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $58
CWA
0034
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $58
CWA
0035
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $58
CWA
0036
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $58

TORBRECK Les Amis Grenache 2005
Grenache Barossa Valley
Estimate Per Bottle: 300-330
DON
0096
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $173

TORBRECK The Laird Shiraz 2005
Shiraz Barossa Valley
Estimate Per Bottle: 1000-1050

ABSOLUTE JOY - RP100The Laird is Powell’s new baby, coming from a single 5 acre / 2 hectare vineyard of Shiraz in the Marananga sub-region planted in the 1960s that recently became available for contracting. This is a very different wine from Run Rig. What is most striking about it is the combination of power and elegance in this first vintage, coming from a very good year in the Barossa. Matured for 3 years in new Dominique Laurent “Magic Casks” (Troncais French oak barriques with thicker staves designed for the long aging of Shiraz), 2005 The Laird gives a deep garnet color and pronounced nose that shows savory and spice notes over the fruit, with aromas of hung meat, Peking duck, fertile loam, underbrush, tree bark, anise, cumin seed, menthol, dried roses and lavender over warm black cherries, crush blackberries and fruit cake. The tight-knit, full-bodied palate is very fine with a high level of silt-like tannins and crisp acid running through the concentrated fruit and savory flavors, finishing very long with lingering earth and spice notes. At 14.8% declared alcohol, this is by no means one of the biggest wines in the Barossa, but it is most certainly one of the best. It’s an absolute joy to drink now but it is recommended readers give it 4-5 years more in bottle to soften and marry and enjoy it to 2030+.


CHR
0046
1 BOTTLE Cellar damaged labelCurrent Bid: $594
CHR
0047
1 BOTTLE Cellar damaged labelCurrent Bid: $594

TORBRECK The Steading Grenache Shiraz Mataro 2005
Grenache Shiraz Mataro Barossa Valley
Estimate Per Bottle: 50-55
DON
0197
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $23
DON
0198
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $23
DON
0199
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $23
DON
0200
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $23
DON
0201
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $23

WENDOUREE Shiraz Mataro 2005
Shiraz Mataro Clare Valley
Estimate Per Bottle: 120-140

NEEDS 5-10 -JH94Slightly lighter colour than the Shiraz, but similar brilliant hue; the mataro/mourvedre tannins are evident, but not trenchantly so; nonetheless, needs 5-10 years to fully unfurl its sails.


CHR
0067
1 BOTTLE Slight label damageCurrent Bid: $71
CHR
0068
1 BOTTLE Slight label damageCurrent Bid: $71

WENDOUREE Pressings Red Blend 2005
Red Blend Clare Valley
Estimate Per Bottle: 120-130

WUTHERING WEDOUREE - no scores/notes to be found


JMO
0199
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $76
JMO
0200
1 BOTTLECurrent Bid: $76

DOMAINE DES BAUMARD Quarts de Chaume Chenin Blanc 2005
Chenin Blanc Loire
Estimate Per Bottle: 80-90
REB
0072
1 HALF BOTTLECurrent Bid: $39
REB
0073
1 HALF BOTTLECurrent Bid: $39
REB
0074
1 HALF BOTTLECurrent Bid: $39
REB
0075
1 HALF BOTTLECurrent Bid: $39
REB
0076
1 HALF BOTTLECurrent Bid: $39