Château Tanunda Barossa Chardonnay 2023
- 91
- $25
- Drink by: 2024-2027
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Big in personality – à la Barossa – with plenty of good Chardonnay vibes packed into its smart $25 price point. Hard to ask for more. Amid the ripe peach, melon and citrus aromas a whisper of ginger spice emerges. Not sure what oak has been used but something brings a lovely ginger biscuit and spice allure to the wine, a different and delicious layer, amid ripe fruit, vanilla and a gentle nuttiness. Warm, generous with textural appeal, it’s a Chardonnay on the riper side but nicely controlled nonetheless by lively acidity.
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.
