Henschke Johanne Ida Selma Blanc de Noir MD
- 93
- $70
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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A multi-vintage, mature, Pinot Noir-based sparkling with parcels that have matured for up to 26 years on lees. With lovely poise and subtle complexity, aromas of stone fruits, spring flowers, brioche and grilled almond. Autolysis-derived flavours rise on the palate, rich and generous in almond biscotti and toasty notes with summer stone fruits, fig and dried apricot with creamed honey notes in the background. Acidity remains quite brisk, a good sign, for a sparkling of some age. Closes on a nutty, orange zesty note.
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.
