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

This post was written by Campbell Mattinson. Mattinson is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of The Winefront business. He is the author of five books on wine – four of which were bestsellers (The Wine Hunter, the Big Red Wine Book 2008, the Big Red Wine Book 2009, and the Big Red Wine Book 2010).

Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the national Best Australian Sports Writing Award. In 2026 three of his photographs were short-listed for the World Food Photography Awards.

Campbell Mattinson, who is 100% independent, has tasted between 5000 and 10,000 wines each and every year for the past 25 years. He tastes blind, in comparative brackets, as often as is practicable.

Campbell Mattinson is a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker and a wine critic. In all of these mediums his prime motive is to tell people's stories.

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