Château Tanunda 50-Year-Old Vines Barossa Shiraz 2020
- 91
- $80
- Drink by: 2024-2040
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This is one big, powerful Barossa Shiraz. A multitude of scents and flavours awaits. Woodsy spice, tobacco, dark earth, black fruits and aniseed aromas are rich and intense. There’s a darkness to the palate, so much so, it’s almost Gothic! Dark fruits, dark African and Eastern spices, savoury game notes and leather are embedded, running deep and long. Twenty months in oak indicates a wine that the winemaker considered ripe and rich and therefore worthy of the extra time in oak. It certainly laps it up. Still has plenty of go left in the tank.
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.
