Château Tanunda 50-Year-Old Vines Barossa Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
- 94
- $80
- Drink by: 2025-2037
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The grapes are destemmed but not crushed, before spending a week on skins. Eventually, the wine spends a further year and a half maturing in a mix of new and older French barriques. Under cork, this is dark blood red, both toasty and earthy. There are aromas moving through crushed herbs, cranberries, mulberries, bay leaves, soy, cloves and beef stock, along with a touch of licorice. There is real intensity here, and the structure is seamless, quite dense, and with sleek tannins. The palate sees more of a reliance on black fruits and a note, in the most positive way, of axle grease. Serious length, this will drink beautifully for the next ten to twelve years.
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.
