Château Tanunda 100 Year Old Vines Shiraz 2020
- 96
- $180
- Drink by: 2024-2044
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Dry grown bush vines, more than a century in age, from the Barossa. Hand plunging four times a day and two years maturing in French oak. 5,850 bottles made. This is an utterly entrancing Barossa Shiraz. A black maroon hue. Serious concentration here, this is generous, even sumptuous. Plush, with chocolate, leather, mocha and coffee beans. Seamless, intense and with impressive length plus fine, silky tannins, good energy and bright acidity. Love it and no doubt anyone opening a bottle over the next fifteen to twenty years will do so as well. There really is something in old vines.
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.
