Henschke Hill of Grace

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Over 165 years ago Johann Christian Henschke came from Silesia to settle and build his farm in the Eden Valley region. By the time third-generation Paul Alfred Henschke took over the reins in 1914, the now famed Hill of Grace vines were more than 50 years old. They were planted around the 1860s by an ancestor, Nicolaus Stanitzki, in rich alluvial soil in a shallow fertile valley just north-west of the winery

"Bright purple color. Ripe, mineral-accented black and blue fruit preserves, licorice, mocha and violet on the expansive nose, along with cola and exotic spice accents. Stains the palate with deeply concentrated cherry-vanilla, dark berry, candied violet and spicecake flavors that build steadily as the wine opens up. Finishes broad, sappy and extremely long, showing superb energy, building tannins and lingering dark berry and floral notes.”
— Vinous, Dec 2021

"A dry season with reduced yields, but all the DNA is here with a rich array of baking spices permeating ripe blackberries, red berries and plums. Chocolate, plum cake, currants, freshly turned and loamy earth and dried sage leaves, too. Very complex. The palate's smoothly arranged around the fine, long tannins that carry a concentrated core of blackberries, tarry, dark stony flavors, ripe blood plums and a long trail of deeply spicy warmth through the finish. Hints of mocha and expresso to close. Elegant, complex and complete. This is very approachable now. Typically though, it's a wine that is best drunk at 20 or more years from vintage."
— James Suckling, Aug 2018

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Vineyard name

Hill of Grace Vineyard

Soil composition

Allivial sandy loam over clay

Elevation:

1,312 feet

First vintage of this wine:

1958

Average Vine Age:

100 year average - oldest vines 150 years

Varietal composition:

100% Shiraz

Fermentation container:

Traditional open-top concrete fermentation tanks

Malolactic fermentation:

Full

Fining agent:

Animal based

Type of aging container:

Hogsheads

Type of oak:

French and American

Length of aging before bottling:

18 months

pH level:

3.6

Acidity:

5.9 g/L

Alcohol:

14.5 %

Residual sugar:

0.7 g/L

Cyril Henschke made the first single-vineyard shiraz wine from this vineyard in 1958 from handpicked grapes vinified in traditional open-top fermenters. Matured in 56% new and 44% seasoned (86% French and 14% American) hogsheads for 18 months prior to blending the separate parcels from the vineyard and bottling.

The red-brown earth grading to deep silty loam has excellent moisture-holding capacity for these dry-grown vines, that sit at an altitude of 400m, with an average rainfall of 520mm. Hill of Grace is a unique, delineated, historic single vineyard that lies opposite a beautiful old Lutheran church, which is named after a picturesque region in Silesia known as Gnadenberg, meaning ‘Hill of Grace’.

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