Henschke Henry’s Seven 2024
- 93
- $40
- Drink by: 2024-2036
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When four is better than one, co-fermented Shiraz and Viognier are joined by Grenache and Mataro, and the result is a wine lifted in the prettiest aromatics and bringing a brisk, bright energy to the glass. Enticing to the eye in brilliant, purple-crimson hues. Juniper, rosemary, violet, anise and earth with plum, blackberry aromas. Captures both a Barossa intensity of flavour and friendliness with flavours of black, red and blue fruits, baking spices, earthy dusty cacao and a distinctive vanilla sheen of oak on the finish. It glides easily, aided by a mesh of fine-grained tannins and a lively acidity adding to the smartness and immediacy of the wine.
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.
