Decanter Southern Jewel: Henschke Mount Edelstone 2015 is Decanter’s Australian Red Wine of the Year 2020
Promotional feature.Decanter has unveiled Henschke Mount Edelstone Eden Valley Shiraz 2015 as its Australian Red Wine of the Year 2020 in the latest issue of the magazine
The famed vineyard, first planted to ungrafted shiraz vines in 1912, is found beneath a small hill or ‘mount’ originally given the name ‘Edelstein’ by a German surveyor back in 1839. The German word Edelstein translates to ‘gemstone’ or ‘jewel’; a reference to small yellow opals once found on the property. With time, this was anglicised to Mount Edelstone, and the single-vineyard wine has been labelled this way since the very first vintage that fourth-generation winemaker Cyril Henschke produced from this northern-Eden Valley vineyard in 1952 from 40 year-old vines.