Chateau Tanunda 100 Year Old Vines Shiraz 2021

Written By Campbell Mattinson

Chateau Tanunda 100 Year Old Vines Shiraz 2021
$180, 14.5% alcohol, cork, Barossa Valley.

This is a Barossa shiraz with its flavours written in ink. It’s bold, black and beautiful, its plum jam, asphalt, licorice and toast characters served deep-flavoured and warm. Dark chocolate flavours add yet more, as do burnt hay and peppermint notes. There’s a port-like richness to this wine but it finishes dry and firm. This is an emphatic example of the big, super-ripe end of red wine town. 94 points.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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