NEW RELEASES: 2021 Henschke Hill of Grace, Mount Edelstone and Euphonium

NEW RELEASES: 2021 Henschke Hill of Grace, Mount Edelstone and Euphonium

NEW RELEASES:
2021 Henschke Hill of Grace, Mount Edelstone and Euphonium

Here, the grace and poise of the 2021 season played out as I would have expected it to—with restraint, sophistication and balance. What they managed to make this year comes highly recommended, warmly recommended.
Erin Larkin, robertparker.com, March 2025

Henschke, Hill of Grace Shiraz, Eden Valley 2021
£1,500 per 3 bottle case in bond

Henschke, Mount Edelstone Shiraz 2021
£770 per 6 bottle case in bond

Henschke, Keyneton Euphonium 2021
£195 per 6 bottle case in bond

There are few wines for which we would feel completely comfortable offering untasted and unreviewed, but the sublime wines of Stephen and Prue Henschke would pass that mark. We have know the Henschkes and their wines for more than two decades. Vintage in vintage out, they produce wines of the highest level with unerring consistency.

The 2021 vintage has just been released. We have not tasted. But a huge range of critics has.

Scores for 2021 Hill of Grace looks as follows:

20+ points – Matthew Jukes
99 points – Huon Hooke (The Real Wine Review)
99 points – Dave Brookes (Wine Companion)
99 points – Ryan Montgomery (James Suckling)
98 points – Erin Larkin (Wine Advocate)
98 points – Angus Hughson (Vinous)
98 points – Natasha Hughes MW (Decanter)
98 points – Mary Ann Worobiec (Wine Spectator)
18++ points – Jancis Robinson MW,
97 points – Jamie Goode (Wine Anorak)
97 points – Mike Bennie (The Wine Front)

While those for Mount Edelstone are not far behind:

19.5+ points – Matthew Jukes
98 points – Dave Brookes (Wine Companion)
18 points – Jancis Robinson MW
97 points – Angus Hughson (Vinous)
97 points – Huon Hooke (The Real Review)
96 points – Natasha Hughes MW (Decanter)
96 points – Ryan Montgomery (James Suckling)
96 points – Jamie Goode (Wine Anorak)
95+ points – Mike Bennie (Wine Front)
95 points – Campbell Mattinson (Wine Front)

We include the tasting notes of Angus Hughson of vinous.com and Erin Larkin of robertparker.com below.

Henschke, Hill of Grace Shiraz, Eden Valley 2021
£1,500 per 3 bottle case in bond

98 points, Angus Hughson, vinous.com, April 2025
This outstanding 2021 Shiraz Hill of Grace is a confident young wine built for the long haul in a punchy package that is still tightly wound. It is starting to reveal some of its charms with rocky, licorice, blackberry, and dried herb aromas. The palate is quite extraordinary, particularly the quality of tannins, pithy texture and strident composure, which drive a finish of extreme length and are all accented by deep minerality. The 2021 is a star in the making and easily the best vintage since 2018. Drink 2035-2048

98 points, Erin Larkin, robertparker.com, March 2025
The 2021 Hill of Grace Shiraz comes from a vineyard that sits at 400 meters above sea level—a beautiful, remote-feeling place. The vineyard is picked block by block, defined by vine age, soil types, elevation and position within the vineyard. The older vines within the vineyard tend to hold their acidity and retain lower pH with higher natural acidity than the younger vines, which also assists in determining the parcels. "Ironically, this is the simplest wine to make; it's the vineyard that produces the wine like this. It's due to the work in the vineyard over many generations," says Stephen Henschke. So, to the wine. It is pure and fine, with a languid pool of fruit that is characterized by black silty tannins and persistent, seamless length. This speaks of the ancient place, the rocks, the vines. This is just a magnificent, graceful wine here, one that is "immune to hyperbole," as they say. 14.5% alcohol, sealed under screw cap. The Wheelwright vineyard has 50-year-old vines, Mount Edelstone is over 100 years old, and the ancestor vines in the Hill of Grace vineyard are aver 150 years old. Drink 2025-2051


Henschke, Mount Edelstone Shiraz 2021
£770 per 6 bottle case in bond

97 points, Angus Hughson, vinous.com, April 2025
The 2021 Shiraz Mount Edelstone is a stunner, offering a tremendous mix of refinement and understated power. It is quite beautiful, although tightly bound right now, delivering a compact core of spice, bay leaf, and violets, while oak adds well-judged support. There is a balletic feel to the palate as ethereal flavors of measured ripeness are backed by firm acidity and tight tannins. This release is marked by delicious energy and overall lightness of touch—an exceptional vintage for this label.

97 points, Erin Larkin, robertparker.com, March 2025
The 2021 Mount Edelstone Vineyard Shiraz was planted in 1912 and was 16 hectares from own-rooted, pre-phylloxera James Busby vine stock. The first Mount Edelstone wine was produced in 1952, from 40-year-old vines. The success of the Mount Edelstone was the inspiration for the Hill of Grace single-vineyard wine to be produced from the 1958 vintage. The Mount Edelstone vineyard is planted at 400 meters in elevation and has an easterly aspect trellised to the Scott Henry system, capturing the morning sun and avoiding the hot afternoon sun. The wine is velvety and layered with raw cocoa tannins, black pepper, Sichuan pepper, raspberry and blood plum. This has all the concentration and intensity that we know and love of Mount Edelstone; it speaks clearly to Eden Valley as a place, with notes of sage, bay, crushed rocks and a cool minerality that drives it through the long finish. This is a superb wine. 14.5% alcohol, sealed under screw cap. Drink 2025-2041


Henschke, Keyneton Euphonium 2021
£195 per 6 bottle case in bond

92 points, Angus Hughson, vinous.com, April 2025
The 2021 Keyneton Euphonium, a seamless blend of Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, displays beautiful approachability with vibrant blackberry cassis, slate, violets and Szechuan pepper aromas. The cooler vintage shows more open-knit tannins than usual, but the exceptional balance will still provide good staying power. Drink 2025-2035

92 points, Erin Larkin, robertparker.com, March 2025
The 2021 Keyneton Euphonium hails from a cool year at Henschke—in fact, the coolest since 2002, 19 vintages prior. On the nose, the wine offers us cassis, licorice, raspberry seed and cold black tea. The wine is supple, spicy, black-inflected and mineral, with graphite tannins and raw cocoa through the finish. It is ever so slightly earthy and meaty, with hung deli meat and pastrami as whispers against the black fruit. It's a compositional blend of Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and Merlot. 14.5% alcohol, sealed under screw cap. Drink 2025-2036

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