Chateau Tanunda 50-Year-Old-Vines Cabernet Sauvignon 2018
- 95
- $80
- Drink by: 2021-2033
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If only we celebrated old vine Barossa cabernet as much as we do old vine Barossa shiraz. It really is a jewel.
Here, a case in point. Relatively modest in alcohol at 14% and blessed with great balance, all the key regional assets are here – front palate plushness, a solid core of fruit intensity combined with svelte tannins.cThe 2018 vintage was warm and dry. The result is a cabernet full to bursting with black cherry, plum, violet, vanilla aromas, lifted and bright.
Quite a presence in the glass. Succulent fruit meets cocoa powder, dried herbs thyme and oregano with a tapenade-black olive savouriness. Expressive, balanced tannins and cigar oak nicely absorbed, complete this delicious picture.
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.
