Château Tanunda 50 Year Old Vines Barossa Valley Shiraz 2019
- 92
- $80
- Drink by: 2023-2039
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Old vines are busy in the fruit complexity department here but amid all the bustle, there is freshness and verve. Explosive aromas of blackcurrant pastille, fruit bon bon, licorice strap, sweet black fruits, cinnamon and clove. The maker doesn’t skimp on oak – 24 months in French oak – contributing a warm mocha-coffee-chocolate concentration. Creviced quietly between all of the fruit, oak and tannins are layers of earth and leather. Alcohol plays a role in the overall smoothness of the wine, flowing easily. Team the 50-year-old with a hearty casserole this winter and you’ll be in seventh heaven. Or, there is always the cellar. It won’t disappoint there, either.
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.
