Chateau Tanunda Terroirs of the Barossa Greenock Shiraz 2019
- 90
- $60
- Drink by: 2021 - 2030
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Greenock has quite a distinctive terroir producing some of the most opulent and concentrated red wines in the entire Barossa Valley. A step beyond generous, this wine combines all the rich vinous qualities of the sub-region, and accommodates them with some equally impressively – and, at times, downright intimidating – oak. It is a style that many red wine drinkers will love. If this isn’t the perfect steak wine, it comes close.
Earth, plum, black fruits, dark chocolate with sprinklings of woodsy spice on the bouquet. Greenock has shattered ironstone through its loamy-clay soils and there is definitely a ferrous quality amid the vibrant and powerful fruit flavours which are matched, it must be said, by equally insistent camphor-sandalwood oak.
It is a young wine starting out on a journey and should evolve over the next 10+ years.
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.
