Château Tanunda 100-Year-Old Vines Semillon 2024
- 95
- $80
- Drink by: 2024-2040
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Barossa Semillon is something of a hidden gem. It’s been around for ages and yet it tends to slip through the radar. Here is an example of why your radar needs to be recalibrated to see it. These old vines were hand-picked and then basket pressed to seasoned French oak puncheons, allowing the flavours to build and become more intricate and engaging. A typical edge of lemon and almost custard tart character but with the fine acidity ensuring it remains focused. This will happily handle extended cellaring.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
