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TROPHY BEST RED WINE: RIVERINA WINE SHOW 2009
TROPHY BEST DRY RED TABLE WINE: RIVERINA WINE SHOW 2009
TROPHY BEST CABERNET SAUVIGNON: RIVERINA WINE SHOW 2009
GOLD MEDAL: RIVERINA WINE SHOW 2009
GOLD MEDAL: RUTHERGLEN WINE SHOW 2008
GOLD: ROYAL HOBART WINE SHOW 2009
Pernod Ricard has gone the way of a lot of major wine companies in Australia (Fosters, Constellation, etc) and have really lost focus on their icon brands like Jacaranda Ridge and St Hugo. After a couple of just average vintages, the 2006 vintage of this wine marks a big return to form and this is a wine that I would happily have in my cellar. Well structured with a fantasic balance of fruit and oak that works well from start to finish. It has layers of complexity and plenty of depth. Drink: 2018-2025 94 points Anthony D’Anna
Once known and loved as Orlando St Hugo Cabernet Sauvignon, this now (quizzically) comes under the Jacob’s Creek banner. The 2006 comes adorned with a swag of medals from some of the more minor wine shows (of the six medals on the bottle, four are from the Riverina Wine Show, one from the Royal Hobart Wine Show, and one from the Rutherglen Wine Show).
Characterised by its huge, swaggering tannin and strong, eucalypt-like flavour - smelling it is like sitting under a big peppermint gum at the height of summer. Drinking it then is like chewing on a fistful of blackcurrants and gumleaves – you will need to be highly eucalyptus-tolerant to enjoy this wine. All that outlined, it is still an excellent wine – curranty, dusty, tannic and very persitent. I don’t like eucalypt in wine so I didn’t want to like this, but I couldn’t help but come down decisively in its favour. Drink : 2014 - 2024 94 Points Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front
When first released about 1980, a benchmark, but which seemed to lose its way in a competitive field. Once again, resurgent, with particularly good outcomes in 1994, 1996 and now 1998, a wine with a great record in shows. James Halliday
