Château Tanunda 50-Year-Old Vines Cabernet Sauvignon 2023
- 95
- $90
- Drink by: 2026-2046
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The vines providing this fruit are situated in the Bethany sub-region. Despite old vines being very much part of the Barossa mythology, only 2% of Barossa plantings qualify as 50-year-old Cabernet. Maturation was in new and older French oak barriques for a year and a half. Under cork. An absolutely cracking warm climate Cabernet, this is chockful of flavour. Inky dark black to the core, there is a maroon rim. The nose has rich notes of chocolate, coffee beans, tobacco leaves, blackberries, plums and cassis. There is good oak integration, and we see juicy black fruits continue to emerge on the palate. The wine has excellent length and focus and is utterly delicious. Enjoy for the next twelve to twenty years.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
