Oliver's Taranga 'The Banished' 20 Year Old Fortified Grenache - McLaren Vale NV HALF LITRE (los)
Australia | South | McLaren Vale | 50cl
£39.95
ABV: 19%
Size: 50cl
Country: Australia
Region: South
Sub-Region: McLaren Vale
Wine Style: Sweet
Grape: Grenache
Description
Oliver’s Taranga is a sixth-generation family business dating back to 1839, when the Taranga family moved from the UK and settled in Australia to start a new life. Against the trend, amongst most British settlers, to plant cereal crops and orchards, Oliver decided to plant vineyards and become a grape grower! The business, carefully kept and managed by the Oliver family, has grown and evolved while keeping its original ethos: to grow the best quality fruit to produce quality, small-batch wines that are expressive of variety and vintage.
‘The banished’ refers to three brothers from the family’s second generation who avoided the trials of family farming, preferring to live the ‘good life’ of drinking, smoking and gambling! Needless to say, they were banished from the family property. This is a 20-year-old tawny port-style sweet wine made from Grenache, aged in a solera of ancient Cognac barrels.
The wine has aromas of creamy vanilla extract, caramel, stewed fruits and brandy-soaked apricots. In the mouth, it is a powerful fortified Grenache with flavours of toffee, coffee and preserved booze-soaked fruit; carefully balanced by moreish fresh acidity.
