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  • Country ranking ?

    88
  • Producer ranking ?

    32
  • Decanting time

    4h
  • When to drink

    2020-2035
  • Food Pairing

    Lamb

Food Pairing

Lamb

Top vintages From 2009 to 2022

2016 ›  98 Tb
2018 ›  97 Tb
2017 ›  96 Tb
2020 ›  95 Tb
2015 ›  95 Tb
2014 ›  94 Tb
2013 ›  93 Tb
2009 ›  89 Tb
Average 94.85 Tb

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The Story

The Barossa has a core of traditional growers of Lutheran descent dating back five generations, staunchly continuing the traditions of their forebears. Occasionally, one or two parcels of fruit of overwhelming quality come over the weighbridge; this is such an example. Up to 70 year old, low-yielding vines are growing in low-fertility Neoproterozoic soils more than 542 million years old, ranging from terra rossa to red-brown earths. The fully ...

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Vintage 2018

AUSTRALIA: Very promising quality with the most optimistic reviewers declaring 2018 great in every region and for every variety. The more cautious view is that early frosts reduced yields, but that consistent good weather throughout the second half of the growing season actually resulted in great potential.

Barossa 2018 vintage to savor

The 2018 Barossa vintage was completed at the end of April 2018, with growers and winemakers satisfied...

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Always a favourite and from such an exciting vintage, much is expected. For me, a very fine Tappa Pass, perhaps not their very best, but certainly up there and more than worth inclusion in any serious cellar. 

From a pair of vineyards, including “Uncle Jack’s” shiraz vineyard, which was planted in the fifties, the Henschkes usually find it offers blueberries and plums. For Stephen, although they are very much focused on what single vineyards have to offer, as soon as he saw these wines on the tasting bench, made from two vineyards close to one another, he knew that they belonged together. No doubt, he has been correct in that. 

The colour of ripe cherries. Slightly more restrained than expected and, for me, a little more rustic. Warm earth, spices, chocolate, black fruits, leather. Dense with a hint of animal skins and some good complexity here. I asked Stephen about these characters but it was not something he had encountered in his tastings. Subsequently, I went back to my bottle. For me, these characters were still present (is it possible that my bottle was slightly different? Always possible – less so with the move to screwcaps, of course). But one can only report on what one sees and I should say that I found it a seriously impressive wine. Good balance, 8 to 10 years of improvement ahead of it. Excellent length and worth noting that it impressed even more after 24 hours open. 

For me, this is an excellent TP.


  • 94p

Medium deep crimson. Lifted dark cherry, dark plum, blackberry aromas with praline/ dark chocolate notes. Generous and seductive dark plum, blackberry boysenberry fruits, fine looseknit chocolaty textures, integrated vanilla, spicy oak notes, attractive mid-palate viscosity and long fresh integrated acidity. Finishes chocolaty firm with plentiful dark fruits and savoury notes. A classic Barossa Shiraz with superb density, richness and vigour. Still elemental needing a few years to achieve completeness. 14.5% Alc, Screwcap, Drink 2023 – 2038+ - 96 points

  • 96p
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Origin

South Australia, Eden Valley

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