Henschke Hill of Roses Single Vineyard Shiraz 2021

Hill of Roses is, in simple terms, Hill of Grace in waiting. Fruit is sourced off a 32-year-old single block at the Hill of Grace vineyard and is in readiness to work up to the level of Hill of Grace but is considered still too young.  It’s a wine to be enjoyed for a liveliness of stunning, penetrating aromatics that fill every centimetre bar for the equally enthusiastic presence of black and red berries. Deep red hues. Fragrant and youthful in rose petals, lilac, Aussie bush notes, sage, anise, black cherries, plum, cassis. No new oak here, maturation was in 100% seasoned French oak which gives space to the free expression of the fruit and the spice and those gorgeous aromatics. It carries its ripeness of fruit nicely, this remains medium-bodied, and tannins are fine allowing for a faultlessly elegant, deceptively powerful expression of Shiraz from the Eden Valley.

Jeni Port

Wine critic at Winepilot

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.

Wine writer and critic