Wynns Black Label The Original Cabernet Sauvignon 2024
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- $45
- Drink by: 2026-2061
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This is the wine that started it all for Wynns when it was first released from the 1954 vintage. It has been consistently a great Australian example of Cabernet from this great wine region. As always, it’s approachable with its medium-bodied structure, but has the remarkable potential to cellar for many years. The colour is quite deep and red, and then the nose reveals all you expect from classic Coonawarra Cabernet: lifted cherry and other red fruits, with a subtle floral violet note that stamps this as Cabernet from Coonawarra. The palate is so seamlessly integrated, with those fine chalky tannins and neatly aligned oak all combining to produce a wine of class. The winemaking team of Sue Hodder and Sarah Pidgeon continue to push this wine into new levels of elegance and poise, and I have to say, this has been one of the most appealing releases I have tasted—and believe it or not, I’ve tasted them all.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
