1998 Henschke Shiraz Hill of Grace

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  8/12/2023 - jsebiri wrote:

  Still in very good shape , popped and had a glass 15 mins in , excellent. Over the night it was not getting better, but the 1st and 2nd pour were of the highest quality. Easy to share .

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  1/26/2023 - Cremuel Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Bob's cellar. Dark tinged red, with some brick hue. Pnp, warm nose, mint and eucalyptus, violets and roses, blackcurrant, brambly. Taste starts sweetish and warm, damsons and blackcurrant come through, cloves, eucalyptus and nutmeg, very well balanced. Wow! This is good. A couple of hours later this has settled down and opened up into a perfectly pitched great Shiraz. There are black fruits, but strongly supported by the red fruit side - redcurrants but beautiful refined richness and spiced warmth. Taste continues to be a mixture of crunchy red fruit, gentle spiced Christmas cake, blackcurrant/berry black fruit all underpinned with firm but perfectly measured tannins. Sublime. Exceptional. All the adjectives work. Still years of life.

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  4/18/2022 - RayOB wrote: 93 Points

  Drank at 67PM
  Still young and primary

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  1/20/2022 - rossi.wine wrote: 92 Points

  Tasted next to 1998 Mount Edelstone. Deep, complex, expressive on the nose. Notes of eucalyptus, dark fruit, spices, woodsmoke. A bit more structure and depth maybe, but also a stronger sensation of heat. Powerful, intense, complex. Not as elegant and complete as the previous bottle. I preferred the Mount Edelstone in fact. 91-93

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  8/27/2021 - MQuentel@web.de Likes this wine: 97 Points

  1998 Henschke Hill of Grace Shiraz
  100% Shiraz. The Hill of Grace / (derived from the German word "Gnadenberg") with its partly ancient, self-rooted vines (average age between 50 and 150 years) is one of the very few vineyards in Australia (<1%) that do not need to be irrigated.
  
  Brilliantly clear, deep and still youthful colour. The nose is dewy, clean-toned and still characterised by a wonderfully deep, noble and very clean-toned fruit. A mix of dark berry fruit, ripe plums and black cherries - interwoven with a subtle, cool herbaceousness of mint, black olives and stones. Very sexy on the palate; cool silky surface, underneath lies a beguiling fruit of blackcurrants, ripe and sweet blackberries, plums, interwoven with spicy herbal flavours (mint, gossamer cocoa beans and eucalyptus) and a cool mineral undertone of wet pebbles. Aromatic intensity without any heaviness! There is still so much youthful energy in this wine that the next 15-20 years will be no problem at all. 97/100 2021-2040

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