Henschke Mount Edelstone Shiraz 1990

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Henschke Mount Edelstone Shiraz 1990.

Henschke Mount Edelstone Shiraz 1990
13.5% alcohol, cork, Eden Valley.

I attended a 70-year celebration of Henschke Mount Edelstone Shiraz recently. This was a fairly quick fly-through of many vintages of Mount Edelstone Shiraz and so my notes are brief-ish, though in the case of each wine the impression was clear. The Mount Edelstone vineyard was planted in 1912. The first vintage of Henschke Mount Edelstone Shiraz was 1952.

My note on this 1990 Henschke Mount Edelstone Shiraz from this 2026 tasting: Seasoned oak influence, quite minty, excellent flavour, savoury and sweet. Complete wine. Fully mature obviously but this wine is the stand out of this tasting so far by a country mile. For all intents this is the perfect aged wine. It's a wine of great spread, composure, finish and flare. It's one of those 'this is why you cellar' wines.

I’m not a great fan of putting a point score on aged, fully mature wines but for the sake of it: 97 points.

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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