2021 Henschke Marble Angel Cabernet Sauvignon

The Barossa has been home to winemaking families for six generations. Julius Henschke, Stephen’s great-uncle, was a renowned artist and sculptor known for works like the National War Memorial in Adelaide and angel sculptures at the Gnadenberg Cemetery. His craft often used pristine Angaston marble, quarried near the Light Pass vineyard, which produces exceptional Cabernet Sauvignon from ancient red clay and limestone soils. The 2021 vintage, marked by balanced acidity and excellent colour and flavour, came from vines planted in the late 1970s. The wine was matured in 8% new and 92% seasoned French oak hogsheads for 18 months before bottling.
Alc. 13.5%

Other Reviews…..
Edged with dried herb and forest floor varietal detail, the 2021 release, from a single vineyard of cabernet sauvignon in the parish of Light Pass, is a graceful expression from an excellent vintage. Pure blackberry, blackcurrant and black cherry fruit cut with clove, spice, cigar lounge, cedar, crème de cassis and blackcurrant leaf. Concentration with poise is the feeling this year, with assertive, supple tannins and plenty of mineral drive. One for the cellar. Drink by 2043.
95 points
Dave Brookes – James Halliday’s Australian Wine Companion

A sassy, mid-weighted cabernet that is aromatic, inviting and immaculately crafted. Violet and crushed musk, with a whiff of mint. Red and black currant pastilles, anise and a bow of well wrought tannins wrapped in a dried sage, menthol and lavender piquancy, dry yet pliant and savory. Very good drinking from now across the mid-term. Drink or hold. Screw cap.
93 Points
Ned Goodwin MW - JamesSuckling.com

Single vineyard Barossa cabernet sauvignon.
This is pretty impressive. It’s firm, rich, varietal and persistent. It tastes of blueberry, redcurrant and blackcurrant, in fruit terms, though lavender, a range of garden herbs, tobacco and cedar are also present, and a dusty dryness hovers throughout. It’s medium in weight though, if anything, it leans to the bolder side of that definition, and the kick off the finish – for both flavour and tannin – makes it feel bigger. This should mature very, very handsomely. Drink 2026 - 2035+
94+ Points
Campbell Mattinson - The Wine Front