Chateau Tanunda Grand Barossa Shiraz 2020
- 94
- $25
- Drink by: 2022 - 2030
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As with the Cabernet, the fruit for this wine is sourced from top vineyards
throughout the Barossa and then spends 18 months in a mix of new and
previously seasoned French oak. Serious extraction ensures that the typical
flavours of the region come through in spades.
Purple/black in colour and a dazzling array of flavours – blueberries,
chocolate, black fruits, coffee beans, mocha and more. Richly flavoured and
while it is just bursting forth, all stays in balance. Seamless along the
palate, through to satiny, silky tannins. A lovely generous style that is delicious
now but should sail forth through the next decade. Excellent value.
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.
