Henschke Five Shillings Shiraz Mataro 2024
- 92
- $37
- Drink by: 2025-2036
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Shiraz and Mataro were “stand out” Barossa Valley varieties in 2024 according to Henschke. You won’t doubt it once the combination of earthy savouriness and lively spiciness hits the tongue. There’s a warm, engaging generosity of black fruits, blueberries, plum, anise and the kind of dark spice that Mataro, in particular, seems to excel in: fennel, sage, black pepper. Five Shillings offers a mouthful of Barossa goodness with an underlying thread of earthy – almost rustic – tannins together with savoury black olive notes. It’s the kind of glad-to-meet-you Barossa red that all so easily keeps flowing glass after glass.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
