1987 St Hugo Cabernet Sauvignon Coonawarra

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  8/30/2011 - AlexGarner Likes this wine: 90 Points

  This has aged very elegantly. The nose is predominantly liquorice with saddle leather, stewed plums and dark chocolate. There is a bit of heat in the nose, but it seems to be balanced out with the palette of soft forest fruit, briar and spice. There are plenty of interesting secondary characteristics now that work really well with the palette weight. This will last for a few more years yet, but this is well worth drinking up now.

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  10/6/2008 - graemeg wrote:

  NobleRottersSydney - Twenty Years On...(1988) (Alio's, Surry Hills): [cork, 12.2%] From an unheralded and mostly unremembered vintage, this was a major surprise. A lovely glowing garnet colour, this offers a perfectly aged and quite intense new-world cabernet nose; a dash of cassis, lashings of cigar-box, and a touch of herbal leafiness. The dry palate still presents plenty of fine powdery tannins, medium-body weight and intensity, and good length with a persistent balanced finish. There’s a lovely blurry dustiness to the texture of the wine, it richly coats the palate without being exaggerated. The style which made Coonawarra famous – look at the alcohol – it’s a tragedy that almost no-one seems to be making Coonawarra wine this way any more. A top wine.

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