Château Tanunda 50 Year Old Vines Barossa Cabernet Sauvignon 2023

Let’s hear it for Barossa Cabernet!! Give Cabernet a moment and a cooler vintage and this is how it reacts with a gorgeous integration through and through and a pure elegance that is hard to beat. Comes together so well. Aromas of blackberry, cassis with a gentle infusion of aromatics, earth, bush notes and spices and a well defined influence of some mighty smart French oak after 18 months maturation time.  Love the detail here, the grace, the fineness of delivery of ripe fruits dressed in cinnamon and fine herbs with a black pepperiness that rises and lingers the longer the wine remains open. Fine tannins throughout. Asks a lot to keep your hands off this wine and give it more time. Doubt I can do that.

Jeni Port

Wine critic at Winepilot

Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.

Wine writer and critic