Château Tanunda 150-Year-Old Vines Shiraz 2022
- 97
- $400
- Drink by: 2026-2056
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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.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
