Château Tanunda The Château Eden Valley Chardonnay 2024
- 92
- $40
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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From the team’s vineyard in Eden Valley, a much cooler climate than that in the Barossa itself, they use 20% whole bunches with barrel fermentation, followed by lees stirring and then eight months maturing in a combination of new and older French barriques. 3,000 cases. A yellow gold hue, this is a wine with some finesse. The nose gives us florals and grapefruit notes with a minerally support and a touch of oatmeal. There is a very gentle flick of oak, but everything is very well balanced. A seamless style with juicy acidity and decent length, this will provide pleasure for the next three to five years. Over that time, expect some real improvement, as well.
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.
