Henschke

Hill of Grace is the most famous vineyard in Australia, and Henschke is the sixth-generation family estate that has farmed it without synthetic chemistry for decades — a record that precedes the organic movement but that the estate has formalised through Australian Certified Organic certification and biodynamic practices on the key historic vineyards.

The Hill of Grace Shiraz is made from Shiraz vines planted in the Eden Valley in the 1860s — among the oldest producing vines in the world. The site's schist and ancient sedimentary soils, the cool Eden Valley altitude, and the vine age produce a wine of a depth and structure that younger-vine McLaren Vale or Barossa Shiraz cannot replicate. Prue and Stephen Henschke's understanding of the site, developed over a career of careful farming and incremental improvement, is expressed in wines that age for thirty years or more.

The Hill of Grace has drawn 99 points from Wine Advocate, placing it among the half-dozen most celebrated wines in Australian history. The Mount Edelstone — a second Hill of Grace-adjacent Shiraz from a 1912-planted site — carries equivalent ambition at somewhat more accessible prices.

Henschke's farming approach across the full portfolio — which extends to Riesling, Grenache, and various Eden Valley varieties — reflects the same organic and biodynamic standard applied to Australia's most historically significant patch of old vine Shiraz.