Château Tanunda The Everest Barossa Shiraz 2023
- 97
- $450
- Drink by: 2026-2046
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This is the Estate’s flagship red. Just 400 bottles made. Under cork. The wine will spend around a year and a half maturing in the very best French oak. Dark maroon in colour, there is still plenty of oak evident here, but integration is proceeding well. Rich and plush, this is a most generous style with notes of chocolate, mocha, cold tea, black fruits, cassis, coffee beans and plums. A supple texture with impressive length and immaculate balance through to the silkiest of tannins. An absolutely cracking Barossa Shiraz which will provide at least twenty years of pleasure. A wine which has now established itself as a Barossa icon and this is one of the best they have made.
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.
