St Hugo Coonawarra Cabernet 2020
- 94
- $54.99
- Drink by: 2023-2038
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The prestige wine of the St Hugo range and a superb example of what this great grape can offer from this legendary region. Deep, dark, near opaque colour. The nose offers dried herbs, leather, licorice, tobacco leaves, blackberries, chocolate and black olives. Lifted aromatics giving us a superb nose. Fine tannins, serious length and excellent balance, the wine maintains its intensity for the full journey. A very fine Coonawarra Cabernet which offers exciting drinking for the next ten to fifteen years. The idea would be to try and keep your hands off it for the next five years and then enjoy it. Such a promising future.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
