Volumes of their keenly anticipated 2019 single-vineyard wines are so low that they are also releasing a couple of their museum treasures this year. Above, Duy Dash's picture of Henschke hands on one of the 160-year-old Hill of Grace Shiraz vines.
Today the Henschke family of Eden Valley in South Australia launch their single-vineyard 2019s, but the quantities produced in 2019 were tiny, just 10% of an average crop in some cases. (See the chart below for Hill of Grace.)
Winter was dry, but their mulch and carefully nurtured compost protected the roots of the dry-grown vines throughout an exceptionally...