Mount Pleasant Mount Henry Shiraz Pinot Noir 6pk
Mount Pleasant Mount Henry Shiraz Pinot Noir 2023
Australia’s unique blend crafted by Maurice O’Shea now has a cult following: the Shiraz is lightly framed and blended with Pinot Noir from Mount Pleasant's 100-year-old block, providing a wine of balance, complexity, and finesse.
Mount Pleasant Mount Henry Shiraz Pinot Noir 2023
"This is somewhere in the vicinity of 82% shiraz, the shiraz off 1946 Rosehill vines. The pinot is old vines too. “We’ve got no shit fruit anymore”, says winemaker Adrian Sparks, “we just have old, high quality vines left now”.
MB: This has mojo. Sappy, savoury, a pleasing bitterness and tension of tannin and minerally acidity in tow. Some pencil shaving oak overlaid but that tart red fruit, Italianate tannin, herbal inflection and light, botanical elements all feel harmonious and compelling. Slinky texture then tugs to firm. Really good. 94 points.
KS: Can’t deny, it’s one of my fave blends, the Shiraz/Pinot, if one can generalise like this, and Mt Henry is sort of a benchmark for me. I’m trying hard not to be biased. But who can ever be in 100%? Black cherry scented, violet, blackberry leaf, granite and dark leather, some dead flower umami note and dark slate tannin, it’s an alpine amaro drink with a bitter-salty seaweed finish. Cool stony texture and quite smooth and evenly spread but focused drive. High drinkability! Tip top! 94points
GW: Boysenberry, biscuit spice, violet and dried rose perfume. Medium-bodied, purple fruit, some grain and grip to tannin, structure is good, acidity sits very well, and there’s quite a volume of fruit, and the length is excellent, and savoury too. Lovely wine, and I think it offers something different that lifts it above, hence the score. 95 points" 95 Points, The Wine Front
"Deep-ish, bright red-purple hue; fresh raspberry aromas, a suggestion of cough syrup, raspberry jellies, while the palate is medium bodied and liberally sprinkled with firm tannins which add a serious bite to the palate. A bold, more straightforward wine, solidly built and shows a more serious intent than might be expected of a pinot blend." 92 Points, Huon Hooke, The Real Review
The famed estate of Mount Pleasant has a well-storied past, founded by the visionary of Australian wine, Maurice O’Shea. It includes plantings of ancestral vines of 1880, as well as Australia’s oldest mother vine Pinot Noir planted in 1921 by O’Shea himself. It is the home of some of the first fine wines of Australia, and with just five winemakers over its 100-year history, it has maintained its status as a benchmark of the Hunter classics, Shiraz and Semillon.
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