Henschke Mount Edelstone Shiraz 2022

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Henschke Mount Edelstone Shiraz 2022.

Henschke Mount Edelstone Shiraz 2022
$300, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, Mount Edelstone.

The theme of the 2022 Henschke releases is “lifted aromatics”. They are expressive, fragrant wines, cool, fresh, not roasted. This is often the case with Eden Valley wines of course but this is particularly apparent with the 2022s. Exhibit A, Mount Edelstone shiraz 2022. It brings boysenberries to the table, bright, pure, lively. It brings plums, not stewed. It carries sage notes in its front pocket, crushed rock and woodsy spice notes in its hair. Everything comes across as combed, silken, pretty, perfumed and powerful. The danger in calling this wine exquisite is that it might downplay the wine’s presence, though it would help to emphasise its harmony. Think of a body, beautiful and a jacket, tailored, the latter with just enough embroider for you to know without asking that it’s expensive. That’s Henschke Mount Edelstone Shiraz 2022. 96 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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