Château Tanunda Old Vines Limited Series Shiraz Cabernet 2024
- 93
- $50
- Drink by: 2026-2038
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To celebrate the Estate’s 135th anniversary, this wine has been added to the range. The blend is 57% Cabernet Sauvignon and 45% Shiraz. Maturation was for a year and a half in French oak. Crimson/red in colour, it is immediately evident that there is good oak integration here. It sits alongside aromas weaving through cassis, bay leaves, mulberries, smoked meats, black cherries, coffee grinds and aniseed. The wine is of decent length, well balanced, still full of energy and life, and finishing with fine powdery tannins. Enjoy it over the next eight to twelve years.
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.
