Henschke

1 May

Henschke is a Mattinson 10-Star Winery.
Only the best of Australia’s best wineries are ranked as a Mattinson 10-Star Winery.

Henschke’s Hill of Grace Shiraz battles it out with Penfolds Grange for the title of Australia’s premier wine. This is an incredible feat for a small-run, single-vineyard wine off ancient vines, competing as it does against an organisation with all the resources in the world (literally). This is the Henschke way. It grows its wines right, and it does everything proper. It follows then that all the Henschke wines have an attention to detail, and a level of quality, that is of note. The most recent 2021 Cyril Henschke Cabernet Sauvignon is such a superb wine that it’s on a quality par with Hill of Grace itself. This is not unusual with the Henschke range of wines. Mount Edelstone Shiraz is another in the Henschke range to routinely vie for top quality billing. It is routinely superb. In short, the wines of this great Australian wine family live up to the name, and to the reputation, where it counts the most: in the glass.

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There have been 29 reviews of Henschke Mount Edelstone Shiraz reviewed on The Winefront site spanning the 1978 through to the most recent 2021 releases.

There have been 13 reviews of Henschke Cyril Henschke Cabernet Sauvignon reviewed on The Winefront spanning 1993-2021.

There have been 26 reviews of Henschke Hill of Grace Shiraz reviewed on The Winefront spanning 1962-2021.

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Campbell Mattinson

This post was written by Campbell Mattinson. Mattinson is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of The Winefront business. He is the author of five books on wine – four of which were bestsellers (The Wine Hunter, the Big Red Wine Book 2008, the Big Red Wine Book 2009, and the Big Red Wine Book 2010).

Mattinson is also the founder of Mattinson Photography.

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the national Best Australian Sports Writing Award. In 2026 three of his photographs were short-listed for the World Food Photography Awards.

Campbell Mattinson, who is 100% independent, has tasted between 5000 and 10,000 wines each and every year for the past 25 years. He tastes blind, in comparative brackets, as often as is practicable.

Campbell Mattinson is a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker and a wine critic. In all of these mediums his prime motive is to tell people's stories.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com

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