St Hugo Signature GSM 2024

94 POINTS

Ken Gargett - Winepilot

As ever, this 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.

93 POINTS

Dave Brookes - Halliday Wine Companion

Super-bright purple/crimson in the glass. This grenache, shiraz, mataro triptych show plenty of bouncy, bunchy plum, cranberry and red berry fruits with a distinct ginger-spiced edge. There are high tones of citrus blossom and raspberry pastry with a base of medina spice, earth and red licorice. It's a distinctly modern take on the GSM style and, with its gentle tannin and bright acidity, it's a very easy drink with a savoury twist at the tail end.

92 POINTS

Campbell Mattinson - The Wine Front

I like the shape of this. I like the fineness of the tannin, and the easy-going length. It tastes of raspberries and saltbush, rust and earth, with toasty malt-like characters tucked into the wine’s general supple-ness. It sits mid-way between old-school and new-school, in a pleasing way, I’d argue. It’s good.