2016 | Wynns | John Riddoch Cabernet Sauvignon

Description

Red Wine: 2016 | Wynns | John Riddoch Cabernet Sauvignon

This is a very impressive and regal cabernet with a rich array of ripe blackcurrants, mulberries and blackberries on offer, as well as a cedary and gently chalky edge.

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Producer: Wynns

Ratings: WA | 96WS | 95

Vintage: 2016

Size: 750ml

ABV: 13.7%

Varietal: Cabernet Sauvignon

Country/Region: Australia,South Australia

This is a very impressive and regal cabernet with a rich array of ripe blackcurrants, mulberries and blackberries on offer, as well as a cedary and gently chalky edge. There’s a very rich and powerful core of deep-set fruit, as well as a thread of rich chocolate flavor and a very polished, assertive core of tannin that holds super long.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: These John Riddoch wines are, with each passing year, more approachable, more supple and more lithe on release. Coonawarra has a reputation in Australia for producing extraordinarily long-lived Cabernet Sauvignons, which are not necessarily approachable early. Well. These modern wines buck that trend. The refined oak program has actually done something to support the fruit and elevate it rather than weigh it down—a result of many years of research and work by the Wynns team, particularly winemaker Sarah Pigeon. So, to the wine. This 2016 John Riddoch Limited Release Cabernet Sauvignon offers five spice, mulberry, raspberry salted licorice, clove, tobacco leaf, a hint of nag champa tobacco, jasmine tea and brilliant length—I wrote the note off the length. These wines should be measured by their balance, and their ability to age. In this case, also by its beauty as a young wine.

• Wine Spectator: This is a very impressive and regal cabernet with a rich array of ripe blackcurrants, mulberries and blackberries on offer, as well as a cedary and gently chalky edge. There’s a very rich and powerful core of deep-set fruit, as well as a thread of rich chocolate flavor and a very polished, assertive core of tannin that holds super long.

Producer Information

Wynns Coonawarra Estate is a wine company particularly well known for its Cabernet Sauvignon wines from the famed terra rossa soils of the Coonawarra region of South Australia.The estate was founded in 1891 by John Riddoch, and bought in 1951 by David and Samuel Wynn, who began to focus on the productiong of Cabernet Sauvignon. By 1981, vineyard holdings had expanded to 440 hectares (1087 acres), making Wynns the largest estate in the region. The figure is now nearer 850 hectares (2100 acres), a small percentage of which is farmed under contract.The brand’s flagship wine is the John Riddoch Cabernet Sauvignon. It is sourced from the best parcels of Cabernet and is produced only in optimal vintages. It is aged in French oak barrels, small portion of which are new and will happily cellar for a decade or more.