Chateau Tanunda Grand Barossa Cabernet Sauvignon 2020
- 91
- $25
- Drink by: 2022 - 2030
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The ‘Grand Barossa’ series sources fruit from across the best sites and
vineyards throughout the region. The wine spends 18 months in a mix of new
and previously seasoned French oak.
Rim of red and core of a more inky magenta, this is as youthful as expected.
A lifted and fully flavoured style offering some early complexity. Dry
herbs, beef stock, black olives, warm earth, animal skins and black fruits.
More rustic than refined, but this is the Barossa so it works. Good acidity
carries the flavours along a seamless palate. A wine of mid-intensity which
lingers finishing with slightly furry tannins. 91 for the moment, expect 92 in a year and even higher over the next decade.
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.
