Henschke Tappa Pass Shiraz 2022

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Henschke Tappa Pass 2022.

Henschke Tappa Pass Shiraz 2022
$127, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, Barossa Valley.

This is the 20th edition of a Henschke Tappa Pass Shiraz. It’s become an important and noteworthy part of the Henschke range. It’s a wine that, over the years, has never lacked flavour, though it’s added finesse to its armoury, as this wine shows. Indeed this release ramps up the complexity too. It tastes of twigs, herbs, ripe plums and redcurrant, with mint, black olive and woodsy spice notes woven throughout. There’s a firmness to this wine, and plenty of fruit, though there’s also more than a passing nod to savouriness. As a result it feels complete. 94 points.

(Footnote: The 2023 Henschke Tappa Pass Shiraz won the coveted Best Shiraz class at the 2025 Barossa Wine Show.)

Campbell Mattinson

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.

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