St Hugo DR3 Barossa Valley Shiraz 2014

What do you get when you blend a Formula One racing car driver and a Barossa Valley icon – a delicious aged shiraz that is at its drinking peak. Matched up with a 2015 Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon, this is the first of a whole range of wines to emerge in the coming years with Daniel Ricciardo playing a role in not only choosing vineyards but also blending wines for the new DR3 range.

Deeply coloured, there is an impressive array of mulberry, cocoa and salt bush aromas with sweet oak in the background. It is then full flavoured and fleshy – ripe and generous blackberry, baked earth, soy sauce and black olive flavours are complimented by a dusting of white pepper supported by slightly firm tannins. It’s a wine at peak right now that will also drink well for the next 5 to 8 years. 

Angus Hughson

Founder at Winepilot

Angus is an award-winning wine writer and the Founder and Publisher of Winepilot, the Australian Editor for leading international publication VINOUS with Antonio Galloni based in New York City and the Co-Publisher of The Australian Ark with over 15 years of publishing, writing and judging experience.

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