Wynn’s Coonawarra Estate V&A Lane Cabernet Shiraz 2022
- 95
- $60
- Drink by: 2024-2036
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A rainy day in Coonawarra with the concentrated scent of the Australian bush heavy in the air. That’s the aroma that greets the drinker – the earth, the soil, the bush, dried herbs and black and red fruits – simply sensational. The great Australian red blend is in familiar territory. Liquorice, chocolate, spice and dried herbs swirl around black and red fruits flowing easily to a long finish. Smoky cedary oak remains a well-integrated constant. This is a wine that that never raises its voice, never moves out of step and is defined by silky but firm tannins and generous flavour. Cellaring will probably be the last thing on your mind when it is tasted, but it’s a worthy option. It will cellar a treat.
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.
