1996 Penfolds Shiraz St. Henri

Community Tasting Notes (54) Avg Score: 91.3 points

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  4/9/2023 - mphatic wrote:

  Cork, 14% alc. Signed by Penfolds winemaker, Peter Taylor. Auction purchase in the early 2000s.
  
  Medium garnet/ pale ruby. Some bricking.
  Level into neck. Cork damp all through, and completely disintegrated upon opening with an Ah-So. minimal ullage.
  
  Sweet, damp earth, cherry, blueberry, leather, licorice, light soy sauce. Hewn oak.
  
  Tannins largely resolved, slightly grainy. Savoury and dusty palate with dried sour edged fruit. Acidic line. Losing some fruit, and likely over the crest, but still life left. A bottle by bottle proposition at this age.

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  5/19/2021 - brisbane piefan Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Probably not going to improve much from here. Nice aged red. Minimal ullage, cork came out in one piece successfully. Moderate bricking. Fruit fading slightly with some smoky cigar box notes coming through.

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  4/4/2021 - graemeg wrote:

  {cork, 14%} Aging, bricking note to the colour. Decanted off a fair amount of sediment. Cork half damp, ullage fine. Nose a bit acetic, leathery. All very tertiary. Palate is very advanced, a bit ‘generic old wine’, with leather and rotting fruit, aged strawberries, maybe. Trembly acidity, faded tannins. Medium weight, with a medium length but not very seductive finish. On this instance, on the downslope.

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  11/12/2020 - willmark wrote: 88 Points

  12th Nob 2020: on its last legs, will not improve any further...drink up remaining bottles!

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  8/1/2020 - fizz wrote:

  Level in to the neck. Cork barely soaked.
  Dark garnet. Black fruits and a touch of spice on the nose. Elegant and refined palate, integrated tannins are in the background. There’s so much to like here. It builds in the glass and seems to gain momentum over a few hours. This bottle was singing.

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