Maker: Huber, Starlight, Indiana, USA.
Grapes: Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Petit Verdot.
Place of origin: Indiana, USA.
ABV: 13.9%
Price: $40 (website)
Note: My wife and I received a complimentary tasting and tour and a 10% discount at time of purchase.
Appearance: Dark ruby red.
Nose: Oak, blueberries, black cherries, dark chocolate.
Palate: Blackberry juice, old oak, raspberry, blueberry juice, serrano ham, smoke.
Finish: Chewy and oaky with a faint background of fruit.
Parting words: Huber (not to be confused with Austrian winemaker Markus Huber) is one of Indiana’s oldest and most well regarded wineries. The have a couple stills too and make a variety of spirits, including excellent brandies and a good gin I reviewed here. Their strength is in their red wines, although their Chardonel and Traminette wines are also good. They produce varietal Blaufränkisch (aka Lemberger), Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, and in some years Tannat, among others. Their most expensive (and probably best) wines are their Meritage Heritage red blends. We were particularly impressed with the 2012 and this 2010. The wife liked this one better so we purchased it.
Heritage 2010 HSR a tasty, structured, well balanced wine that evokes the best in California blends of this type. We had it with a meal featuring NY strip steaks topped with wine cap mushrooms and it performed swimmingly. It’s drinking well now, obviously, but it will still be good in the next 5 or even 10 years if you’re feeling adventurous.
$40 is more than I like to pay for wine since it’s usually past the point of diminishing returns, but Huber’s Heritage 2010 HSR is close enough to being worth the money that I can recommend it.
The only thing I disliked about this wine was how the cork crumbled when I tried to open it. The cork forced me to strain the wine and then decant into another bottle. Get a new cork supplier, Ted.
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Honestly have never heard of any Indiana wineries… Am intrigued but 40 seems a little steep to take a flyer on.
It is. $40 is the current price of the 2010 vintage, but later vintages are cheaper. Probably should have mentioned that in the review!
Huber and Oliver (near Bloomington) are the two biggest. Oliver is sort of the St Julian of Indiana. There are some other boutique operations like Butler and Brown County that make some pretty good hybrid and fruit wines, if you’re into those sorts of things. The southern part of the state has a lot of glacial hills and is where most of the best wine grapes are grown.
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