Château Tanunda 150-Year-Old Vines Barossa Grenache 2019
- 95
- $160
- Drink by: 2024-2040
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More please! While Château Tanunda is an obvious Shiraz specialist, it also has access to some incredible, old vine Grenache. This ‘young’ five-year-old highlights the innate beauty of the grape, capitalising on its naturally buoyant nature. Lively aromatics in lavender and juniper with aromas of roasted plum, black cherry, spice, black pepper, earth and cedary oak. Comes alive in detail to taste and, while obviously full bodied, the fine tannin profile works well in delivering a balanced whole. The role of spice is elevated and quite delicious.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
