Château Tanunda 50 Year Old Vines Barossa Shiraz 2022
- 92
- $80
- Drink by: 2025-2041
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Has that authentic stamp of classic style Barossa Shiraz: power, volume, warm, round and flowing. The ripeness of the fruit definitely takes a starring role in league with high-ish alcohol (14.9%) and without too much persuasion drags the drinker in. Black fruits to the fore with cassis, dark plum, sage, blackstrap liquorice, allspice, woodsmoke. The palate is soft, long and round, really smooth with firm tannins in support. The palate is dense and supple, chock full of fruit, spice, earth and chocolate notes and a tantalising savouriness of smoked meats, a feature that sits to the back offering another layer of interest. May not be big on finesse but delivers in personality.
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.
