Henschke Johann’s Garden 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Henschke Johann’s Garden 2023 on a white background.

Henschke Johann’s Garden 2023
$65, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, Barossa Valley.

Johann’s Garden is a Barossa Valley blend of grenache and mataro. This 2023 release is right up there for quality, its raspberry and red cherry flavours cut with sweet spice, rust, earth and redcurrant, though there are pretty floral characters dancing throughout. This wine is both fresh and solid at once. It’s also drinking like a charm right now, though it will hold and mature for quite some years to come. 93 points.

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Review of the Henschke Johann’s Garden 2024 is here.
Henschke is a Mattinson 10-Star winery.

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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