Château Tanunda 100-Year-Old Vines Semillon 2025
- 96
- $80
- Drink by: 2026-2044
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As you might expect from these old vines, this is a limited edition that really does highlight the wondrous virtues of Semillon in the Barossa. After handpicking and basket pressing, it’s spent about seven months in seasoned puncheons. So you’ve got complexity and palate depth in abundance. Aromas of slightly nutty, lemon-scented notes. And a palate that has a certain creaminess about it, but then the fine acidity and that cutting lemony edge harness it and focus through to its long finish. It’s a wine that’s been built to last, and yet it’s hard to put down now. Terrific wine.
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.
