Mount Pleasant Mount Henry Shiraz Pinot Noir 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Mount Pleasant Mount Henry Shiraz Pinot Noir 2024.

Mount Pleasant Mount Henry Shiraz Pinot Noir 2024
$60, 14% alcohol, screwcap, Hunter Valley.

I could review this in one word: buy. I am a long-time lover of the wines of the Hunter Valley and indeed, especially, of Tyrrell’s and Mount Pleasant. But wow, does this wine have character, and difference, and its own unique take. It has ferrous/blood-like characters, and violet notes, and blueberries, and potpourri, and woodsmoke, and cherries, and mace. It’s fine dining in a bottle. It’s medium in weight at most but there’s enough flavour and texture to hang onto, and the finish is fresh, spicy, mouthwatering and persistent. It has you at hello and you’re still hanging on its every word at goodbye. 94 points.

The above wine is from the 2024 Hunter Valley vintage. The 2023 Hunter Valley vintage is one for the ages. I looked at the 2023 Mount Pleasant red wines here.
Mount Pleasant 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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