Château Tanunda The Everest Shiraz 2021
- 97
- $330
- Drink by: 2024-2054
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The initial vintage of this wine from the 2005 vintage picked up ‘World’s Best Shiraz’, and every release since then must also have been a contender. Coming from such a great vintage as 2021, this was always going to be something very special. Just 650 bottles made, the wine spent a year and a half maturing in French oak, including a contribution from new oak. Dark maroon/magenta in colour, this is supple, gorgeously plush and ever-so-generous. We have notes of smoked meats, cassis, blackberries, licorice, chocolate, cocoa powder, soy, leather and coffee beans. Finely balanced with silky tannins, it offers such amazing length and the intensity never waivers for a moment. A thirty year proposition.
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.
