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 |    ÂDeep crimson with garnet hues. Complex and attractive aromas of dark berry fruits, ripe plum, liquorice, sweet mint and exotic spices. The palate is rich, complex and pure with seductive plum and spice flavours, velvety tannins and a long and lively finish. Delicate and elegant â drinking beautifully with age.
Product Information
- Vintage
- 1991
- Technical Details
- Alcohol: 13.5% | pH:
3.36
| Acidity:6.5g/L
| Volume: 750mls
- Harvest Date
30-31 March (Around Easter)
- Maturation
Matured in new French and American oak hogsheads for approximately 18 months prior to blending and bottling. Bottle aged in the Henschke cellar for museum release.
- Background
Over 180 years ago, Johann Christian Henschke came from Silesia to settle and build his farm in the Eden Valley region. By the time third-generation Paul Alfred Henschke took over the reins in 1914, the now famed Hill of Grace vines were more than 50 years old. The original vines, known as the âGrandfathersâ, were planted around 1860 by an ancestor, Nicolaus Stanitzki, in rich alluvial soil in a shallow fertile valley just north-west of the Henschke family winery. The red-brown earth grading to deep silty loam has excellent moisture-holding capacity for these dry-grown vines, that sit at an altitude of 400m, with an average rainfall of 520mm. Hill of Grace is a unique, delineated, historic single vineyard that lies opposite a beautiful old Lutheran church, which is named after a region in Silesia known as Gnadenberg, translating to âHill of Graceâ. Cyril Henschke made the first single-vineyard shiraz wine from this vineyard in 1958 from handpicked grapes vinified in traditional open-top fermenters. The original Ancestors (vines over 125 years) are now approximately 160 years old and remain the heart of the Hill of Grace wine, along with a small selection of Centenarians (vines over 100 years), Survivors (vines over 70 years), and Old Vines (vines over 35 years), all planted on their own roots.
- Cellaring potential
Excellent vintage;â Drink now â 2030.
- Download Tasting Notes
Vintage Description
A late winter with below average rainfall was followed by a mild spring. Budburst and flowering came 2 to 3 weeks early in mid-September. Summer was hot and dry with little wind and no rain was seen until Easter, which encouraged rapid ripening and excellent maturity of the fruit. Vintage was the earliest on record and, despite the below average yields, the concentration of fruit flavours were excellent.