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Hughes & Hughes Syrah 2022
Hughes & Hughes Syrah 2022
Hughes & Hughes Syrah 2022
Hughes & Hughes Syrah 2022

Hughes & Hughes Syrah 2022

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    A proper Cool-Tassie Syrah from the talented Hughes brothers, crack it open now or set aside for the long haul. Fruit from Brinktop vineyard in the Coal River Valley. Harvested on May 2nd at 12.5 Baume. Predominantly whole berry, 7% whole bunch, natural yeast, held on skins for 21 days while getting gently pumped over once a day while the ferment was most active (4-5 times in total). Pressed directly to and matured in oak (20% new). Bottled unfined and unfiltered.

    A proper Cool-Tassie Syrah from the talented Hughes brothers, crack it open now or set aside for the long haul. Fruit from Brinktop vineyard in the Coal River Valley. Harvested on May 2nd at 12.5 Baume. Predominantly whole berry, 7% whole bunch, natural yeast, held on skins for 21 days while getting gently pumped over once a day while the ferment was most active (4-5 times in total). Pressed directly to and matured in oak (20% new). Bottled unfined and unfiltered.

    Maker

    Hughes & Hughes

    Varietal

    Shiraz

    Country

    Australia

    Region

    Coal River, Tasmania

    Vintage

    2022

    ABV

    13.2%

    Bottle size

    750ml

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    Hughes & Hughes Syrah 2022

    Tasmanian shiraz, when it’s good, is a beautiful thing. This is good. It wears the coolness of its climate on its sleeve with peanut shell and dried herbs characters laid on, not to mention mezcal and peppercorns. It presents a bed of deep, ripe, black cherry and raspberry flavours, which lifts and boosts all that savouriness, and if you look there are blueberry, violet and musk notes here too. It’s a parade. A cohesive parade. Personally I would hook into this now, but it will be better again from next year onwards; the extra time will give the slight amaro/bitter chocolate character sitting on the aftertaste a chance to bed itself in.

    — Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front, 94 Points.

    Hughes & Hughes

    Brothers Matthew and Jonathan Hughes have already enjoyed meteoric success with their acclaimed Mewstone Vineyard, established on the banks of the D’Entrecasteaux Channel in South Tasmania in 2011. Here they create expressive single site wines with a minimum of intervention in the winery. The vineyard is a former cherry orchard and with some new plantings going in this year will expanded to a final size of 5.2 hectares. 

    But for Jonathan to scratch his creative itch he also make wines under the Hughes & Hughes label. Selecting fruit from predominantly Southern Tasmania, the project gives the Jonathan a platform for creativity and experimentation in the cellar. Hughes & Hughes aims to produce bright wines with strong natural acidity, drinkability, that won't break the bank.

    Tasting notes

    NOSE
    Spicy, Dried Herbs, Peppercorns

    Sweet violent perfume, dried herbs characters laid on, mezcal and peppercorns.

    PALATE
    Ripe, Black Cherry, Musk

    A bed of deep, ripe, black cherry and raspberry flavours, which lifts and boosts all that savouriness, and if you look there are blueberry, violet and musk notes here too.

    FINISH
    Cacao Nibs, Powdering Fine Tannin, Cool Herbs

    As it unfurls amaro/bitter chocolate character sitting on the aftertaste. More prominent will cellaring or decanting.