St Hugo Grenache Shiraz Mataro 2023
- 94
- $55
- Drink by: 2024-2030
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This Rhone-style blend is comprised of 64% Grenache, 30% Shiraz and 6% Mataro, which has been sourced from three Barossa Valley vineyards. The Grenache is from especially old vines, ranging in age from sixty to a hundred years. A vibrant purple hue, we have notes of red cherries, plums, mulberries, raspberries and some warm earth notes with a minerally backing. This is young but already delicious drinking. Medium bodied, balanced and providing joy now but with time ahead. Juicy in style and so much to like here, drink now for the next five to six years.
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.
