September Releases 2024

St Henri's signature is its maturation in large format old Slavonian oak. As a result, there's a freshness and purity of fruit that sings through. The 2021 is elegant, silky and supple, showing plenty of textured blackberry and damson fruit. There's aniseed, clove and spicy complexity on the nose and palate, and amazing concentration through the long finish.

The 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon Bin 707 is a blend from the varied solis of Coonawarra, Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale and Padthaway and is matured for 16 months in new American oak hogsheads. Coonawarra is becoming more and more of the signature here, giving lots of fresh cassis and refreshing herbal character. It's built to age, with a firm, muscular structure but a lot of complex flavour to match, and it should soften into a brilliant 707 with time in bottle.

The superb 2022 vintage was another relatively cool year for Seña, like 2021, and the influence from proximity to the ocean can certainly be felt in the pure line of acidity and elegant fruit. Winemaker Francisco Baettig talks about 'fine tuning the style' of Seña in recent years, using old oak foudres and reducing the time spent ageing in barrel to avoid having the wine in wood over a second summer. The result is gorgeous and justifies Seña's position as one of the great red wines of the world, with a rich spiced fruit character and beautifully silky tannins. This has all the structure to age for a very long time, and will reward patience.

2020 has brought a stunning Grange release, with intense blackberry, black plum and black cherry fruits and notes of licorice, spice, dark chocolate and blackforest cake. It's densely packed, with lots of fine tannin, toasty oak, and plenty of muscular swagger. This vintage is 97% Shiraz and 3% Cabernet Sauvignon.

A very pure and elegant Riesling with notes of wet rock, ocean spray, jasmine and white grapefruit zest. This is superbly balanced and linear on the palate with a pure crystalline quality. Chiselled from start to finish, it will age extremely well.

A little more Semillon in the blend compared to previous vintages, the 2022 Ygrec has a beautifully delineated bouquet of fennel, spiced peach, white grapefruit and jasmine. The palate is fresh and vibrant with more citrus and stone fruit flavours accented with salinity and bitter lemon. The finish is extremely long and mouthwatering.