2018 Henschke Shiraz Hill of Grace Eden Valley 750 ml

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99 pts

James Suckling

A superb and harmonious Hill of Grace with wonderful complexity on the nose that keeps bringing you back to the glass. Minty blueberries, red berries and some blackberries. Heather and violets with beautifully integrated spices of peppercorn and five spice. Graphite, salt chocolate and cigar box, too. Intense, lush and concentrated. This is barely full-bodied but the concentration is simply effortless and the flavors grow on the palate. Super silky and svelte tannins glide through the even and cohesive palate. Persistent finish, lasting for more than two minutes. Let it breathe if you decide to open it now, but it will sleep well in your cellar, too.

99 pts

Decanter

The 60th anniversary of Australia’s most famous single-vineyard wine, whose oldest contributing patch—the 0.56ha Grandfathers—was planted an incredible 160 years ago. There can’t be many wines whose inaugural vintage came from 100-year-old vines! As always, it’s a powerful, muscular wine built for the long haul, showcasing silky but structured tannins, fresh acidity, and concentrated, complex yet graceful flavours of ripe blackberry and boysenberry, lighter red and blue fruits, earthy beetroot, peppery cured meat and an exotic, herbal incense note. Named for the Gnadenberg Lutheran church which stands opposite the vineyard, itself named for the region in Silesia from which Johann Christian Henschke emigrated in 1841.

98 pts

Wine Advocate

The Hill of Grace vineyard, in Eden Valley, comprises 13 separate blocks, six of which feed into the Hill of Grace Shiraz. The oldest block (0.56 hectares), known as “Grandfathers,” was planted around 1860. The other blocks were planted in 1910 (0.33 hectares), 1951 (1.08 hectares), 1952 (0.7 hectares), 1956 (0.88 hectares) and 1965 (0.57 hectares). The 2018 Hill of Grace Shiraz was matured in a combination of new (20%) and seasoned (80%) oak hogsheads (83% French, 17% American) for 18 months prior to blending and bottling. On the nose, the 2018 vintage assists this wine in speaking clearly of its regional location: raspberry and licorice, coal dust, black tea and tobacco leaf. There are inflections of black truffle and bone broth, which always seem to emerge, however the wine is brighter and more focused than I have seen. It offers a beautiful, svelte display of fruit and tannin, with all things in harmony in the mouth. This is very long, as we would expect from the pedigree of this wine and the vineyard. It is concentrated and intense, sinewy, elegant and powerful—a wine for the future generation.

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Hill of Grace at Its Greatest

Hill of Grace is Australia’s most celebrated single-vineyard wine—and it takes a back seat to nothing. Not First Growth Bordeaux, not Grand Cru Burgundy, not Screaming Eagle or Harlan. It belongs at the same table, and it knows it.

The 2018 is the 60th anniversary vintage and by every measure one of the all-time greats. James Suckling awarded 99 points, calling it “superb and harmonious,” with a finish lasting more than two minutes. Decanter matched the score. Wine Advocate gave 98 and placed it on par with the celebrated 2015—widely considered one of the finest Hill of Grace vintages of the modern era—calling it “a wine for the future generation.”

The Hill of Grace vineyard sits in the Eden Valley of South Australia, above a small Lutheran church called Gnadenberg—German for “hill of grace.” The wine took its name from the church. The vineyard comprises 13 separate blocks, six of which feed into this wine, including the “Grandfathers” block: 0.56 hectares of Shiraz planted around 1860 that have never been grafted and never been replanted. The other contributing parcels were planted in 1910, 1951, 1952, 1956, and 1965. The youngest vines in the blend are over 60 years old.

The 2018 was matured for 18 months in a combination of new (20%) and seasoned (80%) oak hogsheads, 83% French and 17% American. That restrained new-oak figure is deliberate—Henschke is after terroir, not timber. Wine Advocate described 2018 as warm and largely free from disease pressure across the Eden Valley, producing wines of vitality and energy. In the glass, the 2018 shows “brighter and more focused” than previous editions while losing none of the depth and structure that define Hill of Grace in great years.

Henschke is one of only two Australian wineries to have earned the Green Emblem award for leadership in sustainability and long-term environmental health. The family has been farming the Eden Valley since Johann Christian Henschke emigrated from Silesia in 1841—now in its fifth generation, with Stephen Henschke and his wife Prue, who oversees the viticulture, at the helm.

2018 Henschke Shiraz Hill of Grace Eden Valley 750 ml

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