Château Tanunda The Everest Barossa Shiraz 2022
- 97
- $450
- Drink by: 2025-2045
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It may raise a few eyebrows to suggest this, when the winery can offer options like their 150 Year Old Shiraz, but the team see this as their pinnacle. This is their prestige Shiraz and is named accordingly. Maturation is in the best French oak they can find for a year and a half. From the excellent 2022 vintage, the wine spends a further couple of years in their cellars before release. Vibrant yet a dense black in hue, the deft oak handling here is at the forefront. The nose weaves through aromas of mocha, tobacco leaves, coffee beans and black cherries, as well as some vanilla and toast from that oak. There are signs of early complexity already evident. A creamy texture is supported by a fine line of acidity and we see the emergence of dark chocolate notes on the palate. Intense with great length, this is a wonderful Barossa Shiraz and has a future of at least twenty years ahead of it.
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.
