Reviews

The flagship 2018 Godswalk is a selection of the best barrels and in 2018 is two-thirds Shiraz and one-third Cabernet Sauvignon. Beautiful jammy blackberries and hints of blueberries as well as tobacco, cedary herbs, and chocolate emerge from the glass, and it's full-bodied, with layered, seamless texture, sweet tannins, and both richness and freshness. This thrilling Eden Valley blend can be drunk today or cellared for 10-12 years.

This is rich and complex with beautifully polished tannins that give energy and form to this, otherwise juicy and fruity red. It's full and flavorful with plenty of fruit that shows plum, walnut and floral character with some black truffle. Very long. First release. About 1,800 bottles made. A blend of 75% shiraz and 25% cabernet sauvignon. Very drinkable now, but better in 2022.

As its name, the flagship Barrel Selection Shiraz/Cabernet is a selection of the best barrels while is also a selection of the best fruits of the old vines from the organic Moculta Vineyard (near Henschke’s Hill of Grace Vineyard) grown on sandy loam over clay. The blend is 60% Shiraz from Block 1 and 40% Cabernet Sauvignon from Block 13. The grapes are picked, stored and de-stemmed by hand before transferred to open fermenters; fermenting with wild yeast and aided by daily pipeage till fermentation starts and pumping over fermentation is complete; gently basked pressed and then aging 23 months in French oak barrels; without fining or filtration. Tarrawatta Barrel Selection Shiraz/Cabernet 2018 was a perfect model of modern Barossa wine that was exceptionally fragrant and incredibly refined on the aroma, with imposingly balanced perfumes of red flowers, stone, sweet spices (cinnamon, red liquorice), loquat, apricot, cranberry, crushed raspberry, blackberry, ginger and Christmas pudding plus a trace of black chocolate and earth provided the depth and completeness. Showing terrific purity on both nose and palate. The beautifully well-delineated mouthfeel was marked by expressively sweet fruit that packed the slightly powdery but singularly detailed tannin that imparted uncommonly polished sense and underlying tension to the somewhat solemn yet considerably airy finish abounded with linear, fresh and crystalline acid that underlined the ethereality and fineness. It’s decidedly the most touching expression of the ‘terroir’ of Eden Valley.