Château Tanunda Heritage Release Barossa Old Vines Shiraz 2021
- 94
- $40
- Drink by: 2022-2030
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The team release wines in the ‘Heritage’ series when appropriate. The wines will come from vines at least 35 years of age, and which have proved themselves over time. This example spent fifteen months in a combination of French and American oak. It is a vibrant purple hue and the nose opens with pleasing plummy touches and mulberries, chocolate, cassis and more chocolate, reminiscent of the most decadent Black Forest cake. Rich and concentrated, but it never loses its fine balance, this is a youthful Barossa Shiraz which is starting to exhibit some early complexity, and shows so much promise. Supple in texture, there are also abundant but very fine, silky tannins. Nice length too and the intensity is maintained for the full journey. Drink now and for the next six to eight years – I like this a lot.
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.
