Château Tanunda The Château Single Vineyard Grenache 2022
- 94
- $40
- Drink by: 2024-2036
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The fruit here was harvested from specially selected rows in the Hueppauff vineyard (which is apparently pronounced as hip-off, as if you didn’t know), which is located next to Chateau Tanunda. Fermentation includes partial whole bunches and then a year’s maturation in older French oak puncheons. The colour here is a blood red/garnet – classic Grenache and utterly delicious. A fine example to show anyone keen to see what a good Grenache is like. Strawberries, cherries, warm earth, florals and red fruits. A little chocolate before a juicy palate with silky tannins. This is bright and energetic with very good length. A good future here, at least ten to twelve years of pleasure.
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.
