Château Tanunda, Birth place of the Barossa, was established in 1890 and is the site of some of the Valley’s first vines planted as well as its first winery.
The Château is privately owned by the Geber family who are proud custodians of the Chateau’s 130th year winemaking tradition.
Its 130 years of winemaking heritage makes it the only internationally-recognised winemaking Château in Australia, a champion of Barossa Old Vine Expressions and is regularly rated amongst the top wine producers in the country.
This is one of the most historically significant winery buildings in the Barossa Valley, built from bluestone quarried in the late 1880s and restored by the Geber family some 120 years later.
Château Tanunda owns almost 100ha of vineyards in Bethany, Eden Valley, Tanunda and Vine Vale, including an impressive collection of old vines aged 50–150 years old.
Additional fruit is sourced from a group of 30 growers covering the panoply of Barossa districts.
The premium wines are typically hand picked, basket pressed and neither fined nor filtered.
The focus here is on old-vine wines, as well as single-district and single-vineyard wines under the Terroirs of the Barossa and The Château labels respectively.
A second cellar door has opened in the Rocks, Sydney.
"Shiraz sourced from the western subregion of Marananga, aged in oak for 18 months.
Lifted aromas of blackberry, black cherry and blood plum with hints of fruitcake spice, dark chocolate, roasting meats, cocoa powder, cedar and earth.
Opulent and rich with black fruit and fruitcake notes, great fruit weight, long-chain tannins and just a tweak of dried herbs on the finish."
Dave Brookes
Published 03 August 2022
TASTING NOTES
Marananga, centred in the North West quadrant of the Barossa provides some of the Valley’s most powerful wines. The red brown clay loam soils with schists and siltstone yield flavours of jam and fruitcake, cardamom, blueberry fruits, cocoa powder with an undercurrent of roasted meats and crackling.
WINEMAKING
To ensure the unique character of this sub region is exemplified in the wine, small open fermenters and our basket press were employed to gently extract the wine. Aging in the finest quality oak for 18 months and selection of the truest barrels has created a wine that respects and expresses its place of origin.
REVIEWS
93 POINTS
Review by: Huon Hooke, The Real Review
Deep, dark purple/red colour. The aromas are floral and violet-like, with super-ripe aroma and flavour allied with slightly coarse, gritty tannins and a chewy finish. A very big, power-packed shiraz with grip and heft. It needs time. It will be very long-lived and richly reward cellaring. Drinking Recommendation: 2023–2038
96 POINTS
Review by: Sam Kim, Wine Orbit
This is immensely powerful and opulent, showing blackberry, dark chocolate, cured meat, cedar and violet aromas on the nose. The palate is equally impressive with outstanding depth and richness, wonderfully framed by chalky tannins, making the wine sturdy and persistent. At its best: now to 2038.
94 POINTS
Review by: Mike Bennie, Wine Business Magazine
A powerful, full-throttle red with heft and architecture to the fore. It's potent in dark plummy fruit, rich spice, nuts and dried fruits, woody notes and a sweet lifted nougat-coconut-like character. Thick, unctuous and rolling deep on the palate, the wine finds excellent balance with its force and thunderous styling.
GOLD MEDAL
Review by: China Wine and Spirits Awards 2020
94+ POINTS
Review by: Andrew Caillard MW
Medium deep crimson. Fresh blackberry dark chocolate brambly aromas with some herb garden notes. Lovely buoyant medium-bodied style with soft blackberries, mulberry berry fruits, fine supple velvety tannins and underlying roasted chestnut notes. Finishes chalky firm, fresh and juicy with a kick of liquorice. ...delicious classic modern Barossa Shiraz.
