Wynns Coonawarra Old Vines Shiraz 2022
- 95
- $45
- Drink by: 2024-2044
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The annual Wynns Day release, the 5th June this year, is always one of the most anticipated days on the Aussie wine calendar, and not for the first time, the prize for the best value goes to this Shiraz (okay, a dead heat with the Black Label Cab). People often forget that Coonawarra’s original reputation was built on cracking Shiraz, before Cabernet muscled in and took over. Fruit included in this wine comes from vines planted as far back as the mid/late 1890s. This is brilliant value and a stonkingly good wine. Black/maroon in colour, this offers a simply gorgeous nose. Intense, plush, balanced and a bit thrilling. Notes of chocolate, violets, mocha, bergamot, cold tea, dry herbs and a little cassis. Wonderful stuff. We also see some coffee grind flavours emerging on the palate with fine, if slightly furry tannins. The wine shows good concentration for the entire length and it is a wine of serious length. Will easily handle ten to twenty years in a good cellar. Love it.
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.
