Château Tanunda Heritage Release Old Vine Shiraz 2025
- 92
- $80
- Drink by: 2026-2034
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As soon as you pour this into the glass, the colour is most striking. It’s deep and dark, and virtually impenetrable. This is a medium-bodied wine, but still with plenty of fruit weight and intensity. It was basket pressed before it spent about 15 months in French and American oak, and I think that American oak really plays an important part, adding its slightly creamy vanillin texture to complement the spicy plummy notes of the variety. Cellar for sure if you wanted, but for me, drink in the next few years. It’s thoroughly delightful.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
