St Hugo GSM 2024
- 94
- $55
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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As ever, the St Hugo range, which picks the eyes out of regions, varieties and blends, provides us with some stellar drinking. This famous Barossa red blend is youthful, but it comes from such a fine vintage and is so seductive and generous, that it is compelling drinking. A crimson purple colour, the nose is just a combination of beautiful fragrances. Fresh cherries, chocolate/cherry notes, florals, violets and blueberries. If that does not sound enticing, then perhaps gorgeous reds are not for you. Seductive texture and silky tannins, this is finely balanced and offering excellent length. There is a little touch of nutty oak on the finish. Great drinking now, but it has at least another five to eight years of pleasure ahead of it.
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.
