The 2022 Mount Edelstone Vineyard Shiraz is bright, supple, spicy, savory and sweet. It is complex and shapely, persistent and delicate, with notes of bay leaf, raspberry seed, tapenade, wet moss and brine. This is a beautiful wine, and one of the most lovely Mount Edelstone Vineyard Shirazes I have tasted on release.

Deep, bright purple-red colour; fresh and bright young-wine aromas with notes of of blackberry underlying the fresh and dried herbs, smoked meats, pepper and mixed spices. Great depth of flavour and concentration but also supreme elegance and harmony. The balance is so impressive in such a young Edelstone. There are lashings of tannins but they are lovely supple, fine-grained tannins, in perfect harmony with the wine. An exceptional vintage indeed.

Impressively purple in colour. Equally impressive is the youthful vibrancy and freshness on show in this four-year-old shiraz with its high spice aromatics, florals and signature Mt. Edelstone herbals. Dark fruits, black cherry mingle with Aussie bush, earth, sage, bay leaf and floral violet top notes. Floating between the layers is a lively spiciness, rising as the wine crosses the palate. Twenty months in French hogsheads (8% new) brings not so much the suggestion of oak as fine textured tannins which play such an important balancing role in both the approachability of the wine now, and its undoubted ability to age 20 years or more. Elegance is a given with Mt. Edelstone, but the youthful finesse of this wine is next level.

100% Shiraz from 110 year old vines out of the Henschke family’s celebrated Mt Edelstone Vineyard in the Eden Valley. Matured for 20 months in just 8% new, the rest seasoned French oak hogsheads, this vintage has all the hallmarks of its 70 year history as a masterful single vineyard creation. Dark crimson in the glass, with crushed plum and a faint waft of native bush in the higher toned aromas, underpinned by senses of iron, ink and flint-stone. The flow into the mouth brings to life jubed black currant fruit pastille flavours with bay leaf, kitchen herbals, peppercorn and savoury spices, lifted mid-palate with delightfully balanced acidity and gently arriving, soft wool-like tannins. A wine for the here and now as well as for ages to come.

An elegant wine of great finesse and poise that captures in an instant the very essence of this great vineyard. The nose shows a more savoury black olive and sage bush character that is lifted with an edgy pepperiness with a hint of bay leaf. It’s bright, lively, with almost boundless energy. This is the modern Edelstone style in essence, captured magnificently. Has all the character with less opulence and more finesse. Love it. There is great brightness and energy with a luminosity that positively glows on the palate.