Château Tanunda Grand Barossa Shiraz 2022
- 93
- $25
- Drink by: 2024-2034
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Fermentation is by way of small batches, before basket pressing into a mix of new and older French and American barrels for a year and a half to mature. A very dark bruised plum hue here. Bold aromas with chocolate, black cherries, spices, blackberries, warm earth after rain and coffee grinds. Good concentration throughout, this is supple, dense and yet balanced. A line of fine acidity runs the length and there are sleek tannins. An eight to ten year proposition that is terrific value and the rest of the world must shake their collective heads and wonder how the region can offer wines of this quality for relative peanuts.
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.
