Penfolds

St Henri Shiraz 2004 Magnum 1.5L

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  Vintage 2004
  96 points www.winefront.com.au

This 2004 Penfolds St Henri Shiraz washes up through your mouth in a blaze of musk and violets, its pure sweet fruitiness silken and lingering ... 

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  Vintage 2004
  94+ points erobertparker.com

It is broody, almost saturnine, with hints of dark chocolate, liquorice and crushed violet. The palate is masculine and structure, a demonstrative St. Henri with an obdurate structure, a vaulted backbone that keeps the fruit linear and strict until it eventual decides to mellow. It unreservedly veers to the more Bordeaux-like St. Henri, but to be frank, it is rather impenetrable now and needs at least a decade before it entertains the notion of drinkability. Even then, it might tell you to bugger off, because that is the personality of this wine.