Hennings The Lone Vine Shiraz 2015

Hennings The Lone Vine Shiraz 2015This exceptional vineyard is located in the Colbinabbin area at the northern end of the Heathcote region and lies on the famed red Cambrian soil strip. Hennings Vineyard was one of the first vineyards planted in the Heathcote region in the early 1860s. Wines were made until the 1920s when the vineyard was abandoned. It wasn't until 1998 when Daryl Rathjen decided to replant the vineyard on the same original site that production started again. The wine

both here and overseas

with its cocoa nib and earthy hints

Lécaillon is one of many that has pushed for change in this area

I rely on Rae as a critic who is not a winemaker

but you only have to take one sip of this lovely wine to realise that O'Leary Walker has got it right - the Clare Valley fruit (60%) adds the power

but 2012 is a stunner – lovely now but sure to evolve

Elena's mother worked in a winery and the fall of Communism in the late '80s led to an influx of orders for Bulgarian wine from supermarkets in the UK as they seized on this newly available source of affordable wines

green fig and apricot pith wind across a tensile beam of mineral crunch and cool climate

We get the early morning sun and not the hot afternoon sun

They also grow young vines without American rootstocks

At the time they had little interest in wine or plumbing (they sold the business)

Lemon rind