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

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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