Château Tanunda Terroirs of the Barossa Eden Valley Shiraz 2022
- 94
- $60
- Drink by: 2024-2037
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A wine very much in the exciting, early throes of youth. It is fresh and bouncing in fruit and spice. Black cherry, cassis, blueberry, liquorice, clove, cassia bark and chocolate all roll seamlessly over the tongue. There’s a real energy here. The lively tannin presence, almost silky and definitely well-crafted, works well with the warm, vanillin notes of oak. The maker likes to give its red wines a decent time in oak, this sees 18 months, but the fruit has slurped it up easily, the liveliness of fruit and generosity of spice, singing clearly through it all. All round good drinking here right now and, as always, Château Tanunda is made with aging in mind.
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.
