Henschke Johann’s Garden Grenache Mataro 2024
- 93
- $65
- Drink by: 2026-2036
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A vibrant, blood red-purple colour beckons. This already looks the part, the sealer is flavours that are compellingly spicy and full of energy and life. Lots of red fruits and berries here, including cherries and wild strawberries, which come together on the bouquet alongside spice and rose scents. There is a black pepperiness in play on the palate (possibly a Mataro contribution) and an overall seamless quality that brings fruit, spice, oak (just 3% new), fine tannins and fresh acidity together and it all flows easily, smoothly.
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.
