Château Tanunda 100 Year Old Vines Barossa Valley Shiraz 2019

The scent of expensive, top quality French oak is quite intoxicating. It opens this lovely old vine Shiraz with some ‘spared no expense’ panache, as if to highlight the need for quality oak for the wine’s astonishing concentration of fruit. Fine, expressive aromas in black cherry, plum, earth, tobacco, dried fruits, warm spices and vanillin oak. The wine moves with confidence, elegance, building in power and presence in the glass. At its core is a firm structural base, the kind to build a rich infrastructure of sweet, ripe fruit complexity around. It works a treat. Its future will be measured in decades.