Wynns Coonawarra The Siding Cabernet Sauvignon 2019
- 94
- $25
- Drink by: 2021 - 2030
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Technically, this is not part of the annual Collection release for Wynnsday, as it is already available, but I enjoyed it so much, I have provided notes for it. Can I say that at $20, it must qualify as one of the buys of the year. Then consider that it has been seen discounted to as low as $14. That seems criminal. A lovely vibrant purple. Beautiful and lifted aromatics. There are notes of black cherries, spices, aniseed, cloves, coffee bean, dark chocolate and more. Supple and seamless, the wine is finely balanced and with long chains of silky tannins. The finish is slightly chalky but there is excellent persistence here. A wine with a long future. I feel a bit sorry it has been excluded from the Collection for Wynnsday – it deserves better.
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.
