Château Tanunda Terroirs of the Barossa Marananga Shiraz 2023
- 95
- $60
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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From the very heart of the Barossa, for many, this sub-region has been responsible for some of the greatest wines ever to emerge from the district. This wine sees a year and a half maturing in the team’s best oak, a mix of French and American. Good examples from this district can offer blueberry notes and hints of chocolate mud cake. This wine does just that. It is a cracker and is seriously good value when compared with some other elite Shiraz from the sub-region. Under cork. This is youthful but intense, with an opaque maroon hue. Notes of cassis, coffee beans, mocha, blackberries and leather, the quality of the Marananga region is on full display. The oak is well integrated and the texture is plush with silk tannins. The palate sees the emergence of big black cherries and graphite notes. So much to love here. This is certain to provide pleasure for a decade, perhaps twice that.
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.
