Hill of Grace is one of Australia's original vineyards. Over 160 years ago, Johann Christian Henschke came from Silesia to settle and farm in Eden Valley. Vines were planted around the 1860s in rich alluvial soils on a shallow fertile valley just northwest of the current Henschke wineworks. By the time third generation Paul Alfred Henschke took over the reins in 1914, the famous Hill of Grace Shiraz vines were more than fifty years old. Hill of Grace remains a unique delineated single historic vineyard, just opposite a beautiful old Lutheran Church, built of local field stone, which was euphoniously named Gnadenberg, which of course, means Hill of Grace.