Château Tanunda 100 Year Old Vines Barossa Valley Shiraz 2019
- 94
- $160
- Drink by: 2023-2042
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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.
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.
