Wynns Single Vineyard Limited Release Cabernet Franc 2025
- 95
- $80
- Drink by: 2026-2033
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Here is a wine that comes from the MacKillop Vineyard in the northern Coonawarra area. And it is the most engaging and quite beautiful wine that expresses this variety so well. The colour is deep plummy red and the nose so bright and lively. There’s a real energy evident from the start. Red fruits, florals, and some nice subtle blackcurrant additions on the nose. The palate is a pure and quite brilliant expression of the variety, and the subtle use of oak—six months in seasoned 3,000-litre French oak vats—is so well handled. It allows the fruit to express all of its glorious qualities, a bright red and black fruit combination. It’s a pretty wine, and yet there is structure here that’ll support medium-term cellaring.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
