This is a fruit driven Hawkes Bay Merlot ready to drink or for the short term cellar. A perfect match with roast lamb and minted potatoes.

The nose exhibits perfumed violets and dark red fruit of plum and cherry. The palate is soft, with rich ripe fruit and fine tannin structure balanced nicely with integrated lingering oak, resulting in a palate of length and complexity.

Cool red berry fruits, but berry fruits that are also ripe and rounded. The tannins are smooth and welcoming, yet cabernet tannins will do what cabernet tannins will do: sweep through the palate. Accompanying them is a neat acidity and a slick, balanced alcohol. Cabernet sauvignon in equilibrium.

A soft and gently rounded palate with ample rich fruits smoothly laced with bucolic tannins and framed by a keen keel of stirring acidity. Plums and blackberries return along with hints of milk chocolate. The giving blackberry and plum fruit is perfectly counter-weighted by the strangely reassuring gruffness of the tannins.

Select parcels of Pinot Noir from around New Zealand went into this wonderfully fruit-driven wine, bursting with dark cherry and wild lavender aromas, with notes of red liquorice and clove and a smooth finish.

At St Hugo, they craft wines that exude power and elegance, embodying the essence of their rich winemaking heritage. An Australian icon, St Hugo Cabernet Sauvignon is an elegant wine with earthy characters that define the classic Coonawarra Cabernet. Aromas of ripe raspberry, perfumed blueberries and hints of blackberry fruit with overtones of violets and cooling dried herbs. Generous and plush red fruits are supported by a backbone of fine tannins and complemented by subtle toasted oak. A delight to the senses, this is a wine you won't forget in a hurry.

At St Hugo, they craft wines that exude power and elegance, embodying the essence of their rich winemaking heritage. This Cabernet Shiraz brings together two of Australia's biggest wine regions, Coonawara and Barossa Valley, to create a perfectly blended wine that is seamless, deep and complex. The bouquet of dark forest fruits such as plum, blueberry and cassis lead into a beautifully complex palate of blackcurrent, sweet plum and chalky tannins. There is a underlying savoury oak hint and a finish of lingering dark chocolate.

At St Hugo, they craft wines that exude power and elegance, embodying the essence of their rich winemaking heritage. St Hugo Signature Collection Shiraz has the perfect balance of St Hugo's house style of power and elegance, being textural and mouth-coating with dense dark red fruits, overlaid with long fine tannins and subtle French oak. A stunning wine of intensity, elegance, tension, and purity that is complete and age-worthy.

Stables Cabernet Sauvignon is medium bodied with a soft round palate of blackcurrant and dark plum fruits with a hint of coffee and spice.

Stables Cabernet Merlot has a warm, soft, rounded palate with delicious ripe berry fruit and currant flavours.

Stables Merlot has a warm, soft, rounded palate with delicious ripe plum and spice flavours.

Stables Pinot Noir has a soft, supple palate with ripe red cherry and strawberry flavours.