Wynns Coonawarra Messenger’s Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
- 96
- $80
- Drink by: 2024-2039
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A single vineyard Cabernet from a cracking vintage, this is the Wynns selection for their premium but limited bottling from this brilliant vintage. The vineyard was planted back in 1975 and has provided extraordinary fruit on so many occasions. The team note 2005, 2010 and 2015 as special examples. An opaque maroon hue, the nose is classic Coonawarra Cabernet. Chocolate, tobacco leaves, cassis, cold tea, a hint of mint, licorice, soy, beefstock and miso. This is impressive. Beautifully focused with a seductive texture and bright acidity, the wine finishes with silky tannins. It has seriously excellent length and like pretty much everything from the Wynns Day releases for this year, this wine will easily cellar, and improve, for ten to fifteen years and possibly considerably longer. A few bottles of this in your cellar, in a decade or so, will make you very happy indeed. And make you appear very wise.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
