St Hugo Attunement Shiraz Cabernet 2018

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of St Hugo Attunement Shiraz Cabernet 2018.

St Hugo Attunement Shiraz Cabernet 2018
$100, 14.5% alcohol, cork, Barossa Vallery/Coonawarra.

This is a wonderful example of this classic Australian blend. It’s made with 64% Shiraz and 36% Cabernet Sauvignon, from vineyards in the Barossa Valley and Coonawarra. What I love about it, other than its quality, is that some of the ageing has been done for you. At seven years of age it’s mellowed to a beautiful place: leather, blackberry, mocha and woodsmoke characters come tipped with aromatic herbs and mint. It’s firm, well structured, well-flavoured and well sustained, with bottle-age complexities working in its favour. It’s just a lovely wine to sit back and to settle in with. And it evolves (very) nicely as it rests in the glass too. 94 points.

Campbell Mattinson

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.

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