Château Tanunda 150-Year-Old Vines Shiraz 2022

Makes sense that if you’ve got vines that are more than 150 years old, you want to let the world know, and this is a perfect illustration of why that’s such a good thing. It’s a deeply concentrated and intensely delivered Shiraz. And yet, such is the balance of oak, fruit, and tannin that it has an almost effortless big-easy feel as it drives through to a long finish. Plummy, dark, spicy chocolate, a little mocha, vanillin oak, and a tightly wound coil of concentrated fruit in the mid-palate. The balance is impeccable, thoroughly seamless. So much happening in here, and it has the structure and fruit intensity to cellar for many years. But, oh my, it does drink so well now.