Wynn’s Coonawarra Estate Messenger Single Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
- 96
- $80
- Drink by: 2024-2034
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One of the picks of the 2021 vintage releases, Messenger comes from The Messenger vineyard located at the southern end of Coonawarra’s famous terra rossa strip. Each year, Wynns winemakers choose a premium parcel of fruit from a single vineyard to release separately. The Messenger vineyard got the nod in 2005, 2010, 2015 and in 2021 which shows it particularly likes the warmer seasons. This wine has real presence, not to mention, class. Opens with a Coonawarra calling card of scents, black cherry, black plum, violet florals, bay leaf, briar and Aussie bush. Tannins are well managed on a palate built to showcase some extraordinary fruit. The Wynns team has worked hard refining oak in recent years and you can see, actually, taste, the results of their labour. While oak is an understated presence it provides a sense of authority and enduring age-ability for the Cabernet.
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.
