Henschke Marble Angel Cabernet Sauvignon 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Henschke Marble Angel 2023 on a white background.

Henschke Marble Angel Cabernet Sauvignon 2023
$80, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, Barossa Valley.

This single vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon was grown on a vineyard (planted in the 1970s) at Light Pass in the Barossa Valley.

The 2023 vintage is considered excellent but such ratings don’t count for much if it’s not reflected in the glass. In the case of this Henschke Marble Angel Cabernet Sauvignon 2023, the glory of the season is 100% reflected. A stash of this in your cellar would be a very precious thing. The weave of tannin through this wine is so intricate that it’s almost worth the price of admission in itself; especially though because the body of this wine is so well fleshed with blackcurrant, green olives, cedarwood, licorice and choc-cream flavours. There’s a keen momentum to this wine and it carries all the way through to the long run of the finish. It’s medium in weight but the quality here is more than impressive; it’s outstanding. 95+ points.

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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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