Henschke Henry's Seven 2015
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Blend: 65% Shiraz, 20% Grenache, 10% Mataro, 5% Viognier
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James Suckling
An absolute beauty driven by shiraz and dressed by grenache, mataro and viognier. Concentrated blackberry fruit aromas and flavors with impressive flow and build. Spicy complexity and super fresh. Drink now. Screw cap.
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Wine Enthusiast
This blend offers a harmony of red and blue fruit, black pepper, floral, graphite and spicy aromas wound delicately into a silky-textured palate that crunches with wet stone minerality. The tannins are fine-grained and almost seamless.
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This is the Henschke’s shiraz-grenache-mataro blend, with five percent viognier cofermented with the shiraz. The viognier might point up the tannins as well as the floral, anise scent of the blend. Those tannins have a green peppercorn spice that adds to the wine’s brightness, accenting the cool notes of strawberries. It’s gamey and rustic, a wine for grilled eggplant and lamb.
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Wine Spectator
Smooth and subtle, with details of mineral and baking spices peeking through the dried cherry and raspberry core. Offers fine-grained tannins and a whiff of black tea. Shiraz, Grenache, Mataro and Viognier. Drink now through 2027.
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Henschke is one of Australia’s leading winemakers and grapegrowers. Henschke is recognised for its rich heritage, innovative spirit and commitment to handcrafting exceptional wines for 150 years. The Henschke family’s grapegrowing and winemaking tradition spans six generations, from outstanding sustainable vineyards in Eden Valley, Barossa Valley and the Adelaide Hills. The small-medium wine business has an annual crush of 700 tonne and employs around 50 staff. Prue Henschke manages the 105 hectares of vineyard, spanning from Eden Valley to Lenswood in the Adelaide Hills wine region. Henschke is one of Australia’s leading winemakers and grapegrowers. Henschke is recognised for its rich heritage, innovative spirit and commitment to handcrafting exceptional wines for 150 years. The Henschke family’s grapegrowing and winemaking tradition spans six generations, from outstanding sustainable vineyards in Eden Valley, Barossa Valley and the Adelaide Hills. The small-medium wine business has an annual crush of 700 tonne and employs around 50 staff. Prue Henschke manages the 105 hectares of vineyard, spanning from Eden Valley to Lenswood in the Adelaide Hills wine region. Stephen and Prue continue to craft their white wines with a focus on purity, while their red wines have a strong focus on terroir, using traditional winemaking techniques.
With bold fruit flavors and accents of sweet spice, Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre form the base of the classic Rhône Red Blend, while Carignan, Cinsault and Counoise often come in to play. Though they originated from France’s southern Rhône Valley, with some creative interpretation, Rhône blends have also become popular in other countries. Somm Secret—Putting their own local spin on the Rhône Red Blend, those from Priorat often include Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon. In California, it is not uncommon to see Petite Sirah make an appearance.
The Barossa Zone encompasses the Barossa Valley and Eden Valley. Some of the oldest vines in Australia can be found here.
Barossa Valley of course is the most important and famous wine growing region in all of Australia where 140+ year-old, dry-farmed Shiraz vines still produce inky, purple and dense juice for some of Australia's best wines.
In the cooler, wetter Eden Valley sub-region, the Hill of Grace vineyard is home to famous Shiraz vines from the 1800s but the region produces also some of Australia’s very best and age-worthy Rieslings.