Château Tanunda 100 Year Old Vines Shiraz 2021

Incredible ancient vines are in play for this gorgeous Shiraz. Centenarian bush vines, ungrafted, the grapes are fermented in small open fermenters with hand plunging up to four times a day before basket pressing and then a couple of years maturing in French oak. The colour is near black, maroon. This is plush, ripe and serious, but seriously delicious showing generous flavours that are simply saturated. The nose gives coffee grinds, black fruits, soy, aniseed, cloves, mocha and plums. Good acidity runs the full journey and the wine is balanced, focused and offers excellent intensity, with sleek tannins. Hard to imagine anyone thinking that this is anything other than a cracking Barossa Shiraz. It simply screams of its origin and you can drink anytime over the next fifteen to twenty years.