The Everest Shiraz 2022
$450.00 / bottle
‘The Everest’ is the pinnacle of Château Tanunda’s wine making philosophy, it represents the ultimate Barossa Shiraz can achieve from the world’s most renowned Shiraz producing region. Uncompromising quality defines this wine, crafted from ultra-quality grapes, hand-picked, basket pressed and neither fined nor filtered and matured in superior French oak barrels. These wines are afforded the utmost attention and craftsmanship in the winery. The Everest is the peak of Barossa winemaking.
The Everest Shiraz 2022 is a dense ruby colour with an intense, enticing nose of rich, red berry fruits and subtle French oak. The wine is incredibly dense and focused with a richness and purity that simply exudes top-class Barossa Shiraz.
Rich dark chocolate, mocha and cedar spice are all to the fore, but the central core is highly focused. Supple tannins from the gentle press merely complement the fruit, silky and rich yet impressively interwoven into the wine. The fruit/ acid balance ensures excellent length and provides a purity of structure for long-term ageing.
Only the very best grapes are selected from individual vineyard blocks in exceptional vintages. Hand-picked, hand-sorted to 1 ton open fermenters with regular hand-plunging and careful basket pressing. The highest quality parcels from this year’s fermented wines are set aside for 18 months of maturation in the finest French oak.
Once bottled the wine spends a further 24 months maturing in our cellars before release.
Awards:
- 100 Points – Sam Kim, Wine Orbit
- 97 Points – Ken Gargett, Wine Pilot
- 97 Points – Ray Jordan
- 96 Points – Andrew Caillard MW, The Vintage Journal 2025
- 95 Points – Huon Hooke, The Real Review
“Since winning the trophy for World’s Best Shiraz for the initial 2005 vintage, this wine goes from strength to strength with every vintage released” – Michelle Geber (Managing Director)
SUITABLE FOR VEGANS AND VEGETARIANS
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Specifications
MaturationMaturation
18 months in French Oak (40% New)
Grape Variety
Shiraz
Closure
Cork
Winemaker
Jeremy Ottawa
Best Drinking
2026 - 2045
Alcohol
14.50%
Reviews
100 Points
Sam Kim, Wine Orbit
A profound rendition, the seductive bouquet presents dark-fruit richness, warm spice, rich floral, smoked-meat, cedar, and dark-chocolate characters. The concentrated palate exhibits exceptional depth and density, while remaining seamless and flowing, wonderfully enhanced by plush texture and beautifully woven tannins. Perfectly proportioned and structured with a sustained, gratifying finish. At its best: 2032 to 2052.
97 Points
Ken Gargett, Wine Pilot
It may raise a few eyebrows to suggest this, when the winery can offer options like there 150 Year Old Shiraz, but the team see this as their pinnacle. This is their prestige Shiraz, and is named accordingly. Maturation is in the best French oak they can find for a year and a half. From the excellent 2022 vintage, the wine spends a further couple of years in their cellars before release.
Vibrant yet a dense black in hue, the deft oak handling here is at the forefront. The nose weaves through aromas of mocha, tobacco leaves, coffee beans and black cherries, as well as some vanilla and toast from that oak. There are signs of early complexity already evident. A creamy texture is supported by a fine line of acidity and we see the emergence of dark chocolate notes on the palate. Intense with great length, this is a wonderful Barossa Shiraz and has a future of at least twenty years ahead of it.
97 Points
Ray Jordan, Wine Pilot
A slightly more robust and opulent wine and certainly firmer than the 2023, but the old vines from the low-yielding blocks deliver the same beautifully intense, vibrant, lively fruit. The combination of spicy plum and raspberry-like characters underpins the wine, and then the chalky fine tannins and French oak contributions play their role. It's a very small production wine, but it shows and highlights Barossa shiraz in its best light.
Score: 97/100 Cellar: 20 years
96 Points
Andrew Caillard MW, The Vintage Journal 2025
Deep crimson. Deep blackberry, roasted chestnut spice, wax polish liquorice aromas. Richly flavoured blackberry panforte liquorice, mocha ginger flavours, chocolaty textures, lovely mid-palate richness and well-integrated crunchy acidity. Should develop really well. Drink 2028–2044
95 Points
Huon Hooke, The Real Review
Deep red-purple colour, with a very savoury bouquet loaded with terracotta/dry earth, dried seed spices and broken rock aromas, a glimpse of charry oak nicely balanced. Preserved plums deeply set. The wine is full bodied and rich, dense and fleshy with concentrated fruit and layers of supple tannins that keep unfolding as the finish rolls long. A big wine which could be enjoyed now but with age will develop much more engaging complexities and texture. 2028-2040
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Magnum (1.5 Litre): 100 Year Old Vines Shiraz 2018
$550.00 / bottle
