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Outstanding Langtons Classification. St Henri was originally modelled after a wine made at a local Adelaide Hills estate named Auldana, eventually acquired by Penfolds. The resident winemaker was married to a Henrietta and his son's name was Henri. Penfold's chief winemaker John Davoren's devoted work with St. Henri set new standards in Barossa reds. St. Henri has long established itself as an elegant, perfumed style based on exemplary fruit definition delicately backed by supple background oak, a modern St Henri classic. An exclusively Shiraz wine this year, an assemblage of fruit grown to exceptional vineyards at Robe and McLaren Vale, Langhorne Creek and Padthaway, the Barossa, Coonawarra and Adelaide Hills. Growing season 2007 was challenging with low winter temperatures threatening severe frosts, followed by unusually high summer temperatures which placed pressure on water resources and fruit exposure. The fruit ripened rather quickly, was selectively and successfully harvested earlier, parcel by parcel, pursuing full flavours, structure and balance. The finished St Henri was matured twelve months in the traditional large format, 1460 litres, fifty year old, well seasoned oak vats. Alcohol 14.5% Bright, youthful red colour. Pure, real, unadulterated, honest Shiraz. Primarily, freshly pureed mix berries, raspberry, mulberry and loganberry, sitting alongside aromas alike those from candied/ toffeed apple. Fresh, vibrant, lively. A complete wine exhibiting vibrant fruit flavours, tannins, acid and maturation artifacts, all combining to deliver good structure and fine texture. Tannins are even throughout, yet serve to tighten palate in the middle, with a singular, central focus. Representing a sizeable component of this year's St Henri, the essence of Shiraz grown to vineyards in Robe can be recognized for distinctive crushed shale, saltbush/ bluebush characters. Poised, yet still lush, generous, the alter ego to Grange. |
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Penfolds was founded by a young English doctor who migrated to one of his country's most distant colonies a century and a half ago
Dr Christopher Rawson Penfold was born in 1811, the youngest of 11 children. He studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, graduating in 1838. Like many doctors before and since, Dr Penfold had a firm belief in the medicinal value of wine. Before he left Britain he had obtained vine cuttings from the south of France and these were planted around the site of the modest stone cottage he built with his wife, Mary, at Magill on the outskirts of Adelaide in 1845. The couple called this house The Grange, after Mary's home in England. Penfolds»
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