Henschke Innes Vineyard Pinot Gris 2024
- 90
- $37
- Drink by: 2025-2032
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Fits nicely into the Gris repertoire with its fine aromatics but also offers a touch of Grigio-style raciness thanks to the Innes Vineyard’s high altitude in the Adelaide Hills. Fragrant orange blossom and jasmine with a touch of ginger alongside lime, citrus, white peach, quince and apple defines both the wine’s scent and flavour. What defines the structure is a lemony bright and juicy acidity. Its youthful vitality, while attractive, is just a little immature at this stage. The Henschke family regards the vintage as “exceptional” and supports ageing the wine for 15+ years from vintage, so it is a fair bet to suggest that we have yet to see this wine truly singing. Give it a little more time.
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.
