Château Tanunda The Château Shiraz 2020
- 92
- $38
- Drink by: 2022-2032
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Another single vineyard wine, this time from the Vine Vale sub-region of the Barossa. After basket pressing, the wine spent 18 months maturing in French oak barrels. The colour is a dark maroon. Lovely and enticing aromas here, with notes of chocolate, ripe dark fruits, mocha, coffee beans and some dark plums. There are good signs of early complexity here. Truffle notes and warm earth characters emerge on the palate. There is also no mistaking the serious grip found here – firm, slightly grainy tannins. This is a wine with excellent length, fine balance and good focus. It will provide delicious drinking for at least the better part of a decade. The finish is oozing with plum flavours.
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.
