Château Tanunda 100-Year-Old Vines Barossa Shiraz 2022
- 97
- $180
- Drink by: 2025-2045
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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.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
