Château Tanunda Old Vine Shiraz 2023
- 95
- $50
- Drink by: 2025-2037
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This is the other wine in the new range of Old Vines and what a cracker it is. After gentle basket pressing, this wine went to American oak barrels for a year and a half. It has given the final wine a sleek, plush and generous nature which works wonderfully well. A deep red hue, there is real concentration here. We have notes of raspberries, truffles, plums, black fruits, leather and cocoa powder. A wine of power, focus and concentration, this really needs a few years in the cellar before opening (not that you won’t enjoy it earlier if patience is not your thing). After that, it will drink beautifully for the following ten to twelve years. A very long finish with fine, silky tannins, the palate sees the emergence of notes of soy and beef stock. Terrific stuff and in comparison, with some prestige releases from the region, brilliant 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.
