Château Tanunda 100-Year-Old Vines Barossa Shiraz 2022

A wonderful expression of old vine Barossa Shiraz, grapes from these ‘centurion’ vines are fermented in small open fermenters with regular hand plunging, before basket pressing, with the wine eventually spending another twenty-four months in their best French oak barrels to mature. This is a truly stunning effort.  An opaque maroon colour, we have aromas weaving through a wonderful array – crushed herbs, sage, tobacco leaves, cocoa powder, aniseed, cloves, blackberries, mulberries and, of course, chocolate. A gorgeously creamy texture, this is seductive, generous and yet finely structured. There is good focus, endless energy, fine acidity and silky tannins. A wine of near incomparable length. This will offer delicious drinking over the next fifteen to twenty years.