Henschke

Peggy's Hill

Henschke Peggy's Hill
Henschke Peggy's Hill

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Henschke

Peggy's Hill

This Riesling takes its name from a local landmark, Peggy’s Hill, at the top of the range between the villages of Eden Valley and Keyneton. Peggy's Hill Riesling is produced from selected traditional Henschke Eden Valley growers with vines up to 50 years old and grown in low vigor ancient Cambrian soils at around 500 meters in altitude. Peggy’s Hill Riesling displays exceptional varietal and regional characteristics.

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Wine Production

The hand picked fruit is partially crushed and chilled before gentle pressing of the free-run juice. Fermentation follows under cool temperatures to allow for high retention of the aromas and flavors. Once fermented, the wine rests on yeast lees for an extended period to build texture.

Tasting Notes

Pale straw with lime green hues. Vibrant aromas of white florals, almond blossom, lime, and white peach. The palate is rich and concentrated with ripe citrus, balanced by a bright acid line providing a mineral texture, and excellent focus and length.

Food Pairing

Serve with fried King George Whiting, yogurt tartare, and herb salad with shallot dressing.

This Riesling takes its name from a local landmark, Peggy’s Hill, at the top of the range between the villages of Eden Valley and Keyneton. Peggy's Hill Riesling is produced from selected traditional Henschke Eden Valley growers with vines up to 50 years old and grown in low vigor ancient Cambrian soils at around 500 meters in altitude. Peggy’s Hill Riesling displays exceptional varietal and regional characteristics.

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Wine Production

The hand picked fruit is partially crushed and chilled before gentle pressing of the free-run juice. Fermentation follows under cool temperatures to allow for high retention of the aromas and flavors. Once fermented, the wine rests on yeast lees for an extended period to build texture.

Tasting Notes

Pale straw with lime green hues. Vibrant aromas of white florals, almond blossom, lime, and white peach. The palate is rich and concentrated with ripe citrus, balanced by a bright acid line providing a mineral texture, and excellent focus and length.

Food Pairing

Serve with fried King George Whiting, yogurt tartare, and herb salad with shallot dressing.

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The 2024 Peggy's Hill Riesling is vibrant and taut in the glass—it thrums with energy like a plucked guitar string. It has notes of crushed rocks, pressed white flowers, scratched lime zest and pithy, zesty acid in the mouth. This is a very fine, light wine, with a firm phenolic structure and good length. It is gorgeous, neat and long.
Wine Advocate
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Citrus-driven aromas of lemon peel, green apples and flint. The palate is vibrant with laser-like acidity, giving notes of candied limes, talc and grapefruit rind. Energetic and pure.
James Suckling
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Citrus-driven aromas of lemon peel, green apples and flint. The palate is vibrant with laser-like acidity, giving notes of candied limes, talc and grapefruit rind. Energetic and pure.
James Suckling
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Citrus-driven aromas of lemon peel, green apples and flint. The palate is vibrant with laser-like acidity, giving notes of candied limes, talc and grapefruit rind. Energetic and pure.
James Suckling
93
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“Pale in the glass with a flash of green and unctuous aromas of freshly squeezed lime juice, Christmas lilies, Bickford's lime cordial, green apple sorbet, crushed stone, bath salts, orange blossom and stone. Crisp, dry and sporting a sizzling mineral line, I have to keep repeating to myself not to mention the riesling and value thing as it shines with use, but I mean really. This is a ripper.”
James Halliday
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Zesty nose with aromas of lemon, ripe apricot flesh and stony minerality. Rounded acidity framing a nice fruity core.
Decanter
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Named after a hill that rises above the vineyards of the Eden Valley, the grapes for this wine are sourced from a small group of local growers. Although notionally dry, there seems to be a trace of residual sugar, which broadens out the mid-palate and provides balance for the vivid acidity. Classic Eden Valley Riesling, with pronounced notes of citrus fruits (lemon, lime) tinged with a suggestion of honeysuckle and lemongrass.
Decanter
16.5++
Water-white. Tight but alluring bouquet with both mineral and floral notes. At the moment it's slightly astringent. Excellent chiselled, extremely pure fruit on the palate. Steely and drinkable already but it will clearly age well. Medium persistence.
Jancis Robinson

Vineyard & Production Info

Soil composition:
Cambrian soils
Elevation:
1640 feet
Harvest time:
March
Average Vine Age:
50 years
Sustainability Certification:
Certified, not stated on label

Winemaking & Aging

Varietal composition:
100% Riesling
Fermentation container:
Stainless steel tanks
Total SO2:
124

Analytical Data

pH level:
2.9
Acidity:
6.83 g/L
Alcohol:
11.5 %
Total SO2:
124
Residual sugar:
3.32 g/L

About the Vineyard

Eden Valley is regarded as one of Australia’s exemplary wine regions for producing world class, highly expressive, and long-lived riesling wines. The variation of sites across the region enhances Henschke's ability to blend and express both the cooler high-altitude characters along with northern sites of moderate altitude. To capture the ultimate expression of the season, the fruit is picked once perfectly ripe. After a gentle extractraction of the free-run juice, and the wine goes into cool fermentation in neutral vessels for dryness. Peggy’s Hill is Henschke's definitive riesling to encapsulate the greater Eden Valley region.

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