Château Tanunda 100-Year-Old Barossa Semillon 2023
- 94
- $80
- Drink by: 2024-2036
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A finer, more circumspect style compared to the 2022 which allows a little more elegance to shine. Mid-gold hues. Honeysuckle, quince, cut pear, baked apple and citrus aromas. Ripe and lightly honeyed to taste with some attractive ginger notes spread over a complex palate, no doubt aided in its complexity through seven months maturation in seasoned French puncheons. That brings a richly embroidered wine to the glass with an emerging texture and flavours in apple, pear, citrus and quince enhanced with chamomile, acacia, fig and nougat. Brisk acidity to close indicates a wine that can only improve with more time in bottle.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
