As I've mentioned elsewhere, one of the first things I did once I'd acquired an interest in wine in general and Australian wine in particular was to acquire a copy of Len Evans' Complete Book of Australian Wine to go with it. That particular wrist-breaker is long gone and would be mightily out of date in any case, but it would be interesting to be able to go back and have a look at the material that did a lot to formulate Hughesy's personal wine iconography.
As also remarked elsewhere, and not just but Yours Truly, Iconic would run as close to a short-priced favourite in the Overused Vocabulary For Writers Who Can't Make The Effort To Find The Appropriate Word Stakes. Iconic's cousin-brother Legendary wouldn't be far behind.
My copy of the Apple Dictionary defines iconic as of, relating to, or of the nature of an icon, which is, in turn, a person or thing regarded as a representative symbol of something.
Legendary, in turn, is of, described in, or based on legends or remarkable enough to be famous; very well known.
That personal iconography referred to tended to be rather Hunter-dominant, with The Rothbury Estate and Lake's Folly dominating the notional landscape, with honourable mentions for Tahbilk Marsanne, Bill Chambers and Rutherglen Muscat, and Coonawarra as a region.
Now, regardless of how large those figures loomed, you couldn't really describe all of them as legendary or iconic.
Tahbilk Marsanne, for instance, while it continues to be outstanding value for money in a style that's close to unique in Australia and was difficult to track down in the early years probably doesn't qualify under either of those definitions.
The Rothbury Estate, at least in its initial form, was definitely very well known, and could be slotted in under legendary, but that particular incarnation is long gone and bears no resemblance to the entity currently trading under that label.
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