Château Tanunda 100-Year-Old Vines Barossa Semillon 2024
- 95
- $80
- Drink by: 2024-2034
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Boasts a lovely Aussie bush scent and feel to it, so much of the land, the soil and distinguished old vines. Utterly delicious and yet also serious in intent, Barossa Semillon deserves more attention than it gets. Fragrant in yellow peach, acacia, honeysuckle, chamomile and preserved lemon. Seamless in presentation, nicely weighted, textural and long. Combines citrus, pear and peach with a touch of ginger spice, just a pinch, that really resonates, together with some attractive savoury preserved lemon bite. The lasting impression is of a smooth, delicious lemon curd friendliness. Shows just how well the Barossa is suited to the grape. Thank you, Château Tanunda for keeping this varietal regional tradition alive.
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.
