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  • Country ranking ?

    79
  • Producer ranking ?

    29
  • Decanting time

    2h
  • When to drink

    now to 2035
  • Food Pairing

    Roasted 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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Written Notes

Medium crimson. Fresh developed stonefruit, strawberry, redcurrant with marzipan with herb, sage notes. Medium bodied wine with lovely strawberry, blackberry fruits, fine looseknit chalky tannins, attractive mid palate volume and well-integrated acidity. A touch atypical but delicious to drink. 13% alc 95 points

  • 95p

Very big, bold, ripe and opulent on the nose – very 1990 in fact. Much browner than the 1991. Full, evolved, exuberant and essentially Australian with spice and very firm tannins even now. Quite pronounced acidity. The palate is much more austere than the nose.

  • 90p

This Aussie classic was a slight disappointment. It’s sweetly aromatic with warm cherry and herb fruit. The palate shows notes of spice, meat, tar and herbs with a hint of mint to the cherry fruit. Very warm and quite Grenache like. 92/100

  • 92p

Dark crimson with brick red hues. Sweet, concentrated dark plum fruits with underlying hints of blackberry, leather, five spice and oak nuances. Plush, ripe plum and blackcurrant fruits combine with layers of fine velvety tannins for perfect balance and a complex yet elegant finish.

The 1990 vintage was an exceptional picture-book season with good winter rains, a perfect spring and mild summer providing excellent ripening conditions. It saw the largest yields on record with possibly the best quality fruit across all varieties for two to three decades.

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Origin

South Australia, Eden Valley

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