Château Tanunda 50-Year-Old Vines Shiraz 2021
- 92
- $80
- Drink by: 2024-2042
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A top vintage meets top winemaking and the result is a harmonious pleasure. Arrives fully integrated and, in keeping with the Château Tanunda style, while there is obvious power there is also sophistication. The winemaker should be congratulated for beautifully bringing to life some fabulous fruit blessed in rich black berries, aniseed, ground cinnamon, clove, undergrowth and earth. Moves seamlessly on to a smooth, velvety palate where tannins are ripe but supple, allowing for easy flowing progress through the mouth before finishing long and lingering. There’s a lot here to like and enjoy.
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.
