Château Tanunda 100 Year Old Vines Barossa Shiraz 2022
- 95
- $180
- Drink by: 2025-2044
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A big step up from the 50-year-olds to the 100-year-olds – the centenarians, according to the Barossa Old Vine Charter – and the mood and taste changes. There’s more of a presence here, depth, intensity, not to mention integration of oak – which is saying something given the wine saw 24 months maturation time in French oak. Arrives fully formed, no angles, no edges, just rich, sweet black fruit, dark plum, cassis, baking spices offering complexity smoothly crafted. More medium bodied than full bodied and not so bold as elegant. Tannins guide the wine well, allowing fruit the final expression with some attractive herbals coming into play, hints of sage and leaf, on the finish. Nice.
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.
