"This wine is Australia's gold standard for stickies. It's amazingly flavoured, like rich marmalade, finishing with a tang of acidity."
Better Homes & Gardens, May 2008

"The most famous sticky in Australia is about as intense as dessert wines get, with bush honey, cumquat and marmalade flavours, all mixed up in a delicious syrupy lusciousness."
Greg Duncan Powell, Australian Good Taste, March 2008

"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

"The sunshine of international acceptance is again on De Bortoli Wines, with judges selecting the 2001 De Bortoli Noble One Botrytis Semillon as the ‘Best Botrytis Wine’ at the 2004 London International Wine and Spirit Competition. The results released by the acclaimed IWS Competition not only give De Bortoli’s flagship wine, Noble One, the honour of holding the ‘Best Botrytis Wine’ title more often than any other wine in the history of the competition, but also adds fuel to the argument that Noble One is now the most decorated dessert wine in the world. The 2001 was also voted ‘Best Dessert Wine’ by Australian retailers at the Liquor Industry Awards in 2002. To date, the 2001 has won seven trophies and 13 gold medals at National and International wine shows."
QHA Review magazine, September 2004

"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

"Apple - or pear-based desserts such as Grannies’ Apple Tart are reminiscent of the sweet yet acidic character found in Sauternes. With a honeyed, but never cloying, sweetness, Noble One Botrytis Semillon is a reasonably priced Australian version."
Hartford Magazine, Connecticut, USA, December 2003

"...arguably better than any of the French dessert wines at four times the price."
London's famous HopInn owner Brian McEntee speaking to OLN wine editor Phil Murray about De Bortoli Noble One

"Noble one has once again been voted by Australian retailers as 'Best Dessert Wine'"
Australian Liquor Industry Awards 2002

"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