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  • Country ranking ?

    107
  • Producer ranking ?

    41
  • Decanting time

    1h
  • When to drink

    Now
  • Food Pairing

    Lamb

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The Story

Nicolaus Stanitski, a Henschke ancestor, originally planted the Hill of Grace vineyard during the 1860s above the Barossa Valley. During the 1950s Cyril Henschke took his family concern back to wine and established the Hill of Grace label in 1956. The Shiraz vines – many now over 140 years old – are among the world's oldest genetic Shiraz plant material. It is remarkable that the vineyard remained intact considering the economic uncertainty an...

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Wine Information

Hill of Grace – Henschke Vineyards

The Eden Valley in which the Henschke estate lies, is situated in the Barossa Range to the east, overlooking the Barossa Valley. Together, these valleys comprise what is today known as the Barossa zone.

Hill of Grace is a unique delineated single historic vineyard. The 8-hectare dry-grown vineyard sits at an altitude of 400. The vineyard is comprised of seven 'blocks'. The Grandfathers, as the oldest...

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Tasting note

color

Medium

ending

Medium

flavors

Mint, Tar and New-oak

recommend

Yes

taste

Well-structured and Ripe

Written Notes

Medium deep crimson. Beautiful wine with intense roasted walnut, blackberry pastille, graphite aromas with hints of marzipan. Well concentrated and classical in structure with lovely developed blackberry, roasted walnut, roasted almond flavours, fine grainy claret-like structure and underlying savoury notes, Finishes firm with ample fruit complexity and mineral length. Lovely modulated power and elegance. 12.%% alc Drink now – 2030+ 99 points

  • 99p

This and the next wines chosen because 1986 was a coming of age for Australian fine wine. Possibly the most famous single vineyard in Australia and thus 'a foil to Penfolds' Grange'. 100% Shiraz. Originally planted 1860s. Would have had quite a lot of US oak in the 1980s.
Sweet fruit and sun-dried tomato and a touch of leather and coffee and furniture polish. Dry, very fine tannins though the oak is still in evidence in some toastiness. Persistent but a bit drying on the finish.

  • 92p

Ruby. Ripe, rich, dark fruity, some spices, liquorice nose. Mint. Fresh acidity, ripe tannins, dark berries, anise, rich, sweet, almost jammy, long. Nailed the wine, not the vintage. 93

  • 93p
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Origin

South Australia, Eden Valley

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