The annual release of the company’s Centennial Collection, the world’s only unbroken lineage of single vintage Tawny dating back to 1878, is timed with the anniversary of the original Seppelt family moving into the Barossa homestead in 1851.

Last year the collection was rebranded to keep it fresh, while this year the $1750 bottle is also available with Riedel glasses in a boxed set for $1860.

Seppeltsfield chief winemaker Fiona Donald said the 1924 100 Year Old Para Vintage Tawny is the 47th consecutive release from the Centennial Cellar.

“The wine shows incredible intensity, volume and mouthfeel, remarkable freshness and length driven with blood orange acidity,” she said.

She said the team worked with Mark Baulderstone from Riedel in Australia to find the right glass for the wine.

“We landed unanimously on the Vinum Cognac Hennessy Glass,” Baulderstone said.

“The finely tuned shape of this crystal glass harmonises the aroma and taste, whilst tempering the alcohol and extract on the palate and emphasizing the bouquet. The thin tulip-shaped nature of the glass allows the wine a very small evaporation surface, to arrive on a glass with the truest clarity.”

The Centennial Collection is rated as ‘Exceptional’ in the Langton’s Classification of Australian Wine and last year entered the inaugural James Halliday Hall of Fame in the wine category.

Halliday praised the liquid gold at the time, saying the “importance and quality of this wine is beyond refute; it is a gift from generations past, a wine altar on which we worship, an ode in a bottle to Australian wine history”.

The release will be marked in the Barossa at a special presentation at the 2024 Barons of Barossa Declaration of Vintage, taking place at the Barossa Cellar on Sunday, February 18.

Donald said each 100ml bottle is individually numbered and authenticated for collection purposes, with signatures from both the Seppeltsfield Executive Chairman and proprietor Warren Randall and Bill Seppelt, the great, great-grandson of Joseph and Johanna Seppelt.