Château Tanunda Terroirs of the Barossa Eden Valley Shiraz 2020
- 90
- $60
- Drink by: 2024-2035
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Bold and luxurious, this is an essay in showcasing Eden Valley Shiraz spice with retaining the wine’s essential Barossa address. Could it come from anywhere else? Aged 18 months in oak, there is undeniably a big role here in woodsy spicy oak and bold tannins. To fully release the flavours that inhabit the wine, a swish or three, are recommended. Enjoy what follows, as star anise, liquorice, sage, black pepper and smoky, cigar box oak aromas are fully revealed on the bouquet. It is followed with an equally impressive palate where a rich spiciness comes alive joining bramble, black fruits, chocolate, old leather, dried fruits and a black olive savouriness. Starting to reveal its age, but still capable of a long life.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
