Henschke Johanne Ida Selma Blanc de Noir MD

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Henschke Johanne Ida Selma Blanc de Noir MD for review.

Henschke Johanne Ida Selma Blanc de Noir MD
$70, 12% alcohol, crown seal, Lenswood/Adelaide Hills.

Multi-vintage, mature disgorged. This particular release was disgorged in May 2025.

Intense flavour meets a general softness. Drinking this is a lovely experience. It tastes of grapefruit, almonds, honey and citrus, with strawberry and creamy-vanilla-marshmallow notes drifting over both the nose and the palate. Complexity; there’s plenty. Drinkability; in spades. Great that it’s sealed with a crown seal too. 93 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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