Château Tanunda The Château Barossa Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
- 90
- $40
- Drink by: 2023-2030
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It’s funny how just one sniff of a wine can send you off on a journey. The scent of turned earth, charry smoke, field herbs and fruits, and suddenly I’m walking down a country road in the Eden Valley. The only thing missing is the smell of eucalyptus. If this young single vineyard Cabernet smells like a walk in the country, it boasts the taste of the country, too. The fruit is sweet and brimming in red and black fruited flavour nicely intertwined with herbs, baking spices and mocha chocolate. Friendly and approachable through and through with gentle tannins presiding. All round good drinking pleasure now, and there’s plenty of energy for further ageing in the bottle.
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.
