Mount Pleasant Mount Henry Shiraz Pinot Noir 2025

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Kasia Sobiesiak - The Wine Front

Just noticed, Mount Henry’s climbing up the premium price tag ladder. In this rhythm, next year it will be double its 2021/23 price. I still have a soft spot for it, maybe because I will get it for free anyway (or maybe not anymore after this post). Anyway, tomorrow is Maurice O’Shea’s birthday and the release of MP’s icons. Cheers! 73% Shiraz from Rosehill 1946 vines and 27% Pinot Noir Mothervine 1921 plantings. Shiraz in Pinot disguise. Seemingly light and delicate, but it has depth and concentration. Beautiful, vibrant colour and perfume. Sweet forest berries, raspberries, some blue, some black too. Aromas are bright, with light shining through, but flavours are dark, deep and spicy. It’s a sunny day in a damp forest. There’s wet bark, rose potpourri here, cherry wood, mint tea, black liquorice, and a medicinal edge to it all, with a bit of iron-like aftertaste. I feel the detail is coming in with time, with air. Let it be in the glass, give it time and say what you will, these two can go together very well, the Shiraz and the Pinot Noir.