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PENFOLDS St Henri Shiraz 2012

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PENFOLDS St Henri Shiraz 2012 South Australia 1 BOTTLE AU$140-160 AUD $ 96

Robert Parker Score: 96+ points

Reviewer: Lisa Perrotti-Brown — Interim - September 201530 Sep 2015

Drink 2016–2035

The 2012 Shiraz St Henri is very impressive with its elegant, sophisticated and well-crafted expression of this superb vintage. As always, there is no new oak employed here, simply 50+ year old large oak vats. This vintage has a dollop (3%) Cabernet Sauvignon, contributing a lovely cassis lift to the heady perfume. Deep garnet-purple colored, it displays a gorgeous nose of commendable purity and intensity with notes of red and blackcurrants, freshly crushed blackberries, menthol, cinnamon stick, bacon fat and cloves. Rich and already expressive on the palate, it is nonetheless built for the long haul with firm, ripe and grainy tannins carrying the fruit to a long and layered finish. This should be a long-lived St Henri that should cellar gracefully for at least 2 decades.

James Halliday Score: 96 points

Reviewer: James Halliday

Read the full tasting note on Halliday Wine Companion (subscription).

Wine-Searcher Aggregated Score: 94 points

2012 Penfolds St. Henri Shiraz

Source: Wine-Searcher.com

Penfolds Rewards of Patience ★★★★★

Penfolds — The Rewards of Patience, Ninth Edition

Drink: Drink now 2040

Medium-deep crimson. Fragrant blackberry, dark cherry, roasted walnut, panforte aromas with graphite. Richly concentrated with blackberry, dark cherry fruits, underlying roasted walnut flavours and chalky al dente/leafy textures. Minerally, muscular, and with "quince, fig, and dried fruit through the finish". A well-regarded vintage with the fruit and tannins finely balanced. Drinking well now, but should keep and evolve. 14.5% alc "Energy and precision with lifted boysenberry notes and generously sprinkled Christmas spices. Sculpted flesh, intricate layering long, graceful taper shaped by fine, granular tannins. A St Henri will sit comfortably alongside the legends of the past." (NR) 97% Shiraz, 3% Cabernet Sauvignon Barossa Valley (23%), McLaren Vale, Adelaide Hills, Robe, Clare the Fleurieu and Eyre Peninsulas.

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Delivery: $16.50 per dozen, Australia-wide via Australia Post. Estimated delivery 3–14 business days from dispatch.