Château Tanunda The Château Barossa Valley Bethanian Shiraz 2021
- 91
- $40
- Drink by: 2023-2034
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Some serious flavour depth right here. Exudes a powerful mix of plush black fruits and integrated oak with a pleasant side bar of savouriness. Bethanian is a single vineyard and it’s clear why it has been singled out. Its pleasure quotient is high. Australian bush scents mix with blackberry, dark chocolate, earth and warm, smoky salami. Barossa Shiraz doesn’t mind some time in oak. Here, it sees 18 months in new and seasoned French and American oak. The effect is warmly accepted and nicely resolved, bringing added spiciness and generosity. Smart winemaking ties everything together. A notable tannin presence enhances, brightens the plush fruits, brings integrated structure and contributes added freshness.
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.
