Hentley Farm, Barossa Shiraz The Creation

Hentley Farm, Barossa Shiraz The CreationA bottling of 100% pressings, this has a rich, dark berry and chocolate nose with impressive freshness. The palate has striking depth of ripe fruit and deeply structured, long tannins. Good balance and more cellaring potential. Drink or hold.

Lovely stuff and this is a wine of power and refinement

fruit-forwardness that marked many of the following vintages

an era in which finesse is just as prized as intensity

There is good delineation to the vibrant middle weight flavors that exude a fine minerality on the firm

The energy here is unreal

incense and smoky Indian spices

Discreet wood can be found on the floral-suffused nose of both white and yellow orchard fruit that reflects notes of spice

requiring only a finessed thinning for uniformity

(a mix of vine ages though the oldest date from 1938)

vanilla mark on the wine

slightly chewy finish

layered and exceptionally beautiful