Château Tanunda 150-Year-Old Vines Shiraz 2022
- 96
- $400
- Drink by: 2025-2045
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Needless to say, wines of this age are incredibly rare anywhere, not just in the Barossa Valley. This is a very special wine and one that should be on everyone’s bucket list. Extraordinary to drink a wine from vines planted way back in the 1800s. Inky black in hue with a vibrant maroon rim, this is generous and plush. There is very good extract here, with serious intensity throughout. The nose offers notes of dark chocolate, aniseed, bay leaves, licorice, coffee beans and a touch of black jellybeans. There are bold black cherry notes on the palate and the wine has great length. It finishes with satiny tannins, but is powerful and exciting throughout. A twenty year proposition.
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.
