Barossa Shiraz at its finest, showcasing the distinctive sub-regional characteristics of fruit selected from the northwestern corner of the Barossa Valley. Dark and structural with underlying minerality, this is a wine with a long life ahead of it.
Sourced from a single block on the Fabal vineyard in the northwest corner of the Barossa Valley where the vines are grown on a very shallow red/brown topsoil layer over an alkaline subsoil. The vineyard sits at an elevation of approximately 325m and has a gentle North West aspect that is perfectly suited to the East-West row orientation resulting in some of the first harvested Shiraz each year in the Valley for St. Hugo. All this combines to create wines of great structure, power, and minerality.
Made with fruit from near Greenock, this is your brooding, punchy, no holds barred Barossan with muscular and powerful aromas of licorice, tar, and baked earth with sweet oak in good support. The palate is then defined by its plushness and opulence with grainy tannins providing a much-needed firmness and backbone through to a long finish. A little disjointed now, but this will get better with time in the bottle.