Red wine
Penfolds, St Henri Shiraz 2016
RRP
95 per bottle
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96
- Tasted on
- 24/07/2019
- Tasted by
- Adam Lechmere
- Tasted in
- London
A nose to lose yourself in – layers and layers of aroma but very restrained, each flavour (blackcurrant, cassis, ripe plum) in a lower key. From the nose, a tour de force. The palate is equally tightly-wound, giving an impression of texture more than fruit, it slips effortlessly down the throat (it’s only lunchtime). You don’t see the alcohol. St Henri sees no new oak; it spends a year in 1,460-litre vats, some of them 50 years old. I love this wine for its finesse and its authority, the fact that it’s so different to its Shiraz stablemates but it’s still so un-European. Very, very fine, it will last for decades.
- Drinking Window
- 2022 - 2040
- Colour
- Red
- Wine Style
- Still
- Alcohol
- 14.5%
- Country
- Australia
- Bottle size
- 75cl
- Grape Varieties
- Shiraz