2004 Penfolds Shiraz St. Henri

Community Tasting Notes (101) Avg Score: 92.0 points

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  4/7/2024 - Araldinho Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Deep opaque garnet.
  Aromas of blackberry, juniper berry, lavender, truffle and smoke.
  Full body.
  Rounded juicy tannins. Blackcurrant acids and coffee bitterness.
  Palate of cassis, licorice, cloves, blackberry jam and charcuterie.
  A powerful, slightly undeveloped and complex wine with dark fruit, concentration and a promising spicy finish. Drink within 10-15 years.
  Tasted alongside Penfolds Grange 1998 and the present wine is concentrated and not as crowd-pleasing as the matched wine.

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  1/7/2024 - rjsmall Likes this wine:

  Cork broke slightly when opening. Dark, dense, inky red colour with slight brown edges. Menthol, slightly meaty nose with subdued hints of dark fruits. Smooth, rounded mouthfeel. Dark fruit flavours, a bit of liquorice and a little touch of vanilla. Grippy tannins at the end with hints of musk and Hubba-Bubba original bubblegum. Long finish with a bit of acidic brightness. In a very nice drinking spot with plenty of interest but still has a lot of life left in it.

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  1/6/2024 - peter.mancell@mfg.com.au Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Still a ripping SA Shiraz.

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  10/21/2023 - wineshaman wrote: 91 Points

  Decanted with light fine sediment, personally cellared since 2009.
  Initially this particular bottle was quite acidic, though there was a bountiful amount of red and blue fruit lingering in the background.
  Once the acidity calmed down this St. Henri was lovely, showing how new world can become one, with old world. Based on this particular well stored bottle, I would drink over the next couple of years or so.

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  10/16/2023 - BobMcK wrote: 85 Points

  Interesting. The first bottle has a very friable cork through which my corkscrew pulled leaving a lot of cork fragments in the bottle. I filtered them off so the wine was effectively double decanted. It was very flat: almost all the tannins had gone and the fruit was nonexistant. Somewhat concerend I opened the next bottle the following night. The cork was much less friable still firm tannins and still good fruit but much less interesting than I had hoped. Some lavender/rosemary in the mid palate with hints of cocao on the finish but less than i had hoped for. Disapointing.

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