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.
Endless persistence. A great wine from Barossa
"It pours on the power. It strikes blow after blow of thick, sweet, dense flavour.
Blackberry, honey, soy and malt, inflections of mint and cloves, a churn of grainy, muscular tannin.
There's real flex here, real grunt. You either succumb or you stand out of its way.
Red berry flavours add a brighter note; a light on a mountain of flavour."
Campbell Mattinson
Published 21 June 2021
WINEMAKING
The hand-picked grapes were destemmed, but not crushed, and spent seven days on their skins in open fermenters with hand-plunging four times daily to gently extract colour, flavours and tannins. This was followed by careful basket pressing followed 24 months' maturation in our cellars in a combination of French and American oak (20% New).
VINEYARD
The Barossa is home to some of the world's oldest ungrafted Shiraz vines and the grapes for this wine come from just two small vineyards in the Eden (Alluvial sand texture contrast soil over red brown clay) and Nuriootpa (Red brown clay loam with alkaline subsoil) sub-regions.
GOLD MEDAL
Review by: Berlin Wine Trophy 2019
95 POINTS
Review by: Mike Bennie, Wine Business MagazineA striking wine for its depth and richness, a riot of plum, blueberry and clove-cedar character, thickset in the palate but with that moreish, pillowy, lightly creamy texture that Barossa does so well. Weight is full, but the balance is all in tow. It's a wine that mobs the senses in the best possible sense.
GOLD MEDAL
Review by: China Wine and Spirits Awards 2019
98 POINTS
Review by: Sam Kim, Wine OrbitA spectacular shiraz combining power and refinement; the splendidly expressed bouquet shows dark fruit intensity with chocolate tart, cedar, toasted spice and tapenade characters. It is impressively concentrated on the palate offering exceptional depth and breath, wonderfully enhanced by velvety mouthfeel and seamlessly woven tannins. Symphonic and breathtaking. At its best: 2022 to 2036.
95 POINTS
Review by: James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion 2020From Nuriootpa and the Eden Valley, basket-pressed and matured in French oak for 24 months. The two regions generate complexity, savoury cadences from Nuri (in the Barossa Valley), richer, darker flavours from the Eden Valley. The net result is positive for a medium to full-bodied wine...Drink by 2036
97 POINTS
Review by: Huon Hooke, The Real ReviewA bigger, more plush wine than the 50-year-old, showing amazing density and concentration, flesh and fruit sweetness, and smoky oak char. A thoroughly decadent wine, very powerful. Great concentration, with big, robust tannins. A whopper of a wine, amazingly powerful and profound, with almost endless persistence. Most impressive. Fruitcake and graphite. Extraordinary wine.
