Wynn’s Coonawarra Estate Black Label Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
- 95
- $45
- Drink by: 2024-2042
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Black Label is often referred to as a classic Aussie Cabernet. In part, that has to do with longevity – the 2022 release marks its 67th vintage. In part, it has to do with consistency of quality over those 67 vintages. The previous vintage in 2021 was from an outstanding year. Could the quality be followed up in ’22? It could! Black-as-night hues. Black plum, blackberry aromas dressed in dried herbs – oregano, mint, jalapeño – and chocolate. On the middle palate, this lovely combo melds and washes over the tongue. Oak tannins are marvelous, a real dichotomy, both fine and focused, but strong. A wine for the ages, unless you fancy a glass right now.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
