Henschke Five Shillings 2024
$37, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, Barossa/Eden Valley.
Shiraz mataro blend from the Barossa Valley. Take juicy red licorice and boysenberry fruit flavours, roll sweet spice notes throughout, and add flashes of floral and peppercorn – and you have the deliciousness of this wine in a nutshell. It’s fresh, vibrant and, simply, gorgeous to drink. 92 points.
Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
