Henschke Mount Edelstone Shiraz 2016

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Medium garnet with crimson hues. Intense and evocative aromas of briary black currant, blackberry, blueberry, and Satsuma plum, with lifted notes of sage, bay leaf, crushed flowering herbs, black pepper, anise and hints of cedar. The palate is rich and complex with well-defined blackberry, mulberry, red plum and black currant fruit, layered with sage, black pepper and bay leaf, and carried by fine-grained, mature, velvety tannins for an almost endless finish.

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About Mount Edelstone The famed vineyard, first planted to ungrafted shiraz vines in 1912, is found beneath a small hill or ‘mount’ originally given the name ‘Edelstein’ by a German surveyor back in 1839. The German word Edelstein translates to ‘gemstone’ or ‘jewel’; a reference to small yellow opals once found on the property. With time, this was anglicised to Mount Edelstone, and the single-vineyard wine has been labelled this way since the very first vintage that fourth-generation winemaker Cyril Henschke produced from this northern-Eden Valley vineyard in 1952 from 40 year-old vines. "The vineyard was planted in 1912, hand-picked, matured in 80% French and 20% American hogsheads (19% new). The vintage was challenging, but this shiraz shows no sign of that. It is full-bodied, very complex and very long, the tannins expertly massaged and drawn under the fruit. Blackberry, tar and bitter dark chocolate all contribute to what will be a very long-lived wine." - Wine Companion

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