Château Tanunda 50 Year Old Barossa Cabernet Sauvignon 2020
- 91
- $80
- Drink by: 2024-2034
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Sourced from fruit from the Bethany sub-region, the wine spent eighteen months in top-notch French oak. A maroon/red hue. The wine gives us florals and bay leaves, dried herbs, soy, beef stock and cold tea with some earthy notes and good oak integration. It is, perhaps, a little chunky in style, but this is a wine of power with plenty of grip here. Five to ten years ahead of it.
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.
