Wynns Coonawarra Black Label Cabernet 2023

SPECIAL VALUE - It's hard to not have high expectations for this wine and yet each vintage you have to be impressed with its poise and delivery of beauty in your glass. Cassis and subtle hints of Ribena. Black cherries, creeping ivy and crushed volcanic rock. A hint of lilac and bramble. The wine stands tall with its confidence and primary fruit focus with artful foundations of fine tannins and sinuous acidity. Once again it is tailored to perfection, highly drinkable now and yet with an ageless grace in 5, 10 years and more. Sometimes the original is just too good to go past. (95) SHANTEH WALE, Halliday Wine Companion

The label has had a slight tweak; it nows notes that this wine is “The Original”. The word Wynns is now larger too. Bottle shot here is the ‘old’ label.

Classic Coonawarra Cabernet. I tasted this over the course of a few hours and with every sip, these were the words that came to mind. It’s medium in body, laced with fine-grained tannin, leafy in an infused way, shows notes of peppercorn and mint, and has the perfect pitch of redcurrant and darker berry flavours. It feels squeaky clean in the best of ways, is taut but not wrenchingly so, and feels generally immaculate. You could cellar this for a long time and it would hold true. The longer I sat with this the more it just seemed to extend. (95) CAMPBELL MATTINSON, The Wine Front

Deep, bright, intense purple colour in the glass, the aromas no less fresh and bright, loaded with mulberry, blackberry and cherry-liqueur aromas. Crushed-leaf and raspberry too. The fruit is doing all of the talking. The wine is similarly sprightly and fresh on the tongue, with a little grip from the youthful tannins, which provide a solid but neatly tailored grip on the back-palate and aftertaste. It's very youthful and primary: a very herbal style of cabernet. Nice now, but a little cellar-time would work wonders. HUONE HOOKE, The Real Review