Penfolds St Henri Shiraz 2002

Penfolds St Henri Shiraz 2002Penfolds Rewards of Patience tasting panel 2021 5 5 rating James Halliday Top 100 Wines of 2006 St Henri is a time honoured and alternative expression of Shiraz, and an intriguing counterpoint to Grange. It is unusual among high quality Australian red wines as it does not rely on any new oak. Released for the first time by Penfolds in the early 1950s (first commercial vintage 1957), it gained a new lease of life in the 1990s as its quality and

with juicy currants followed by waves of dark fruit and charry oak flavours held together nicely by ripe tannins that lead to a lingering finish

Wine Enthusiast – 94 points and Top 100 Wines of 2022

Sons of Eden make four Shiraz-based reds

2015 is a superb year in Piedmont and it shows in this wine that the Monchiero family calls 'baby Barolo'

it'd never happen

with the tannin management promoting freshness rather than anxiety

extended post-ferment maceration

"  Paul Ippolito - 94 points

" Nick Stock

Opaque purple-colored

but not expensive-to-produce

depth and room-filling exuberance