Château Tanunda The Everest Barossa Shiraz 2021
- 96
- $350
- Drink by: 2024-2040
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The Everest ’21 reaches for the heights and then some, in what was a great vintage in the Barossa Valley. With its name, expectations tend to run high. It invariably meets them, but in ’21 there is an added X Factor, something that little bit extra special. For me, it is the middle palate, a moment of fine-ness and black fruited spice intensity where it is possible to lose your way and get lost in its embrace. Big, generous, ripe in solid, black fruited Barossan integrity and backed by an equally sound and strong tannin structure, it marks its case for further ageing. Fine by me, I look forward to reacquainting myself with that amazing middle palate beauty some time in the future.
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.
