Château Tanunda 100-Year-Old Vines Semillon 2025
- 94
- $80
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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Barossa Semillon from vines in excess of one hundred years of age would be worth a look purely for the curiosity factor. Fortunately, these are wines of exceptional quality, as well. Maturation is in older French oak puncheons for a period of seven months. The vineyard is situated in the Vine Vale sub-region of the Barossa. Beautifully packaged, there are 3,624 bottles produced. Lemon yellow in hue, this is a slightly edgy style, which is most attractive and offers an appealingly creamy texture. The nose gives us notes of melons, lemon curd, spices and a touch of citrus. There is serious intensity running the full length, along with juicy acidity. The wine has drive and yet it retains its balance throughout. A lingering finish ties things together. Drink over the next eight to ten years.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
