Three perfect 100-points scores (to date), & six 99-point scores…

The most precious and historic of the Henschke vineyards, Hill of Grace, is just 4 hectares of old-vine shiraz with the first vines planted around 1860. Cuttings were taken from a mass selection of these Hill of Grace ‘Grandfather Vines’ by Prue Henschke in 1989 and were planted as a 1-hectare nursery block, now producing Hill of Roses Shiraz.

20+/20 points -Matthew Jukes
While its scale is breathtakingly impressive, there is thrilling elegance here, too. This is a spectacular wine from start to finish, with every molecule in its place. There is a complete directory of this vineyard’s flavours on display in this wine, seemingly cataloguing every nuance from the glorious, inaugural 1958 until the present day and delivering them in epic harmony. It seems to embrace its ancient history and communicate it in a thoroughly modern language... 2021 is a genuinely humbling wine, and it represents another chapter of wonder in the legend of this ancient land.

100 points, Ken Gargett – Winepilot.com
The 60th release of this famous wine. Many years down the track, expect this to sit amongst the greatest the vineyard has given us. This famous old vineyard in Eden Valley next to the wonderful and scenic Lutheran church, was planted back around 1860, with pre-phylloxera material brought out by a family ancestor, Nicolaus Stanitzki. The first vintage was 1958. Hill of Grace was not made in 1960, 1974, 2000 and 2011. If the pass mark is a perfect or near perfect score, this walks it in. There is some of that exuberance we saw in the Hill of Roses, but this is more serious, more intense, concentrated and complex. We have tobacco leaves, cassis (one note I made was that it was like an alcoholic cassis smoothie), sage, black fruits, dried herbs, aniseed, and a touch of forest floor. Knife-edge balance, incredible length, that creamy and seductive texture, silk tannins – this is an amazing wine which more than lives up to the hype. Well cellared examples should provide immense pleasure over the next forty to fifty years. 100.