Château Tanunda 50 Year Old Vine Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
- 95
- $80
- Drink by: 2025-2037
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From the Valley floor of Bethany where the first vines were planted in Barossa, comes this wine made from 50 year old vines. There is a sentimental aroma, almost wistful in its Cabernet charm. A briar of blackberries, dark plums and cigar room. Dark chocolate and cedar. The palate is quite bright with a coolness on the palate, no not herbaceous but cool in its filigree of acidity and powdery tannins. Once again this shows its pedigree by providing a texture of silk, followed up by some cassia and mocha spice. This is drinking very well now, made in a way that modern Barossa can and yet will live quite happily in your cellar for another 8-12 years further. I would go for a shepherd’s pie or dare I say it a very good meat loaf, ask the best butcher you know.
Shanteh cut her teeth at Sydney’s Award-Winning Quay restaurant where she worked for over a decade and was Head Sommelier from 2018 till 2022. She has been nominated for the Good Food Guide Sommelier of the Year award on three occasions and claims that her experience as a Len Evans scholar as one of the highlights of her career. Shanteh hosts her own weekly podcast ‘Over A Glass’ with the Deep in the Weeds Network and spends her time writing for various publications and judging at numerous wine shows across the country.
