Wynns John Riddoch Cabernet Sauvignon 2013

First made in 1982, the John Riddoch Cabernet Sauvignon was conceived as a flagship wine for the Wynns portfolio.

The wine honours pasturalist and parliamentarian John Riddoch, who was the largest land-owner in South Australia’s south-east corner. With his brother George, the two owned the freehold to more than 70,000 acres. John Riddoch Cabernet Sauvignon is made in small quantities from the best available fruit grown on the estate’s extensive Cabernet plantings.

It has become the definitive Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon, and is arguably richer and more concentrated than any other wine in the region. Made only in years when grapes of extraordinarily high quality are available; less than one per cent of the top Cabernet grapes are used to make it.

Review 97 points James Halliday, winecompanion.com.au Vintage 2013 - A potent, rich, complex, full-bodied cabernet that has a signature as indelible as that of Grange. Cassis/blackcurrant fruit, with touches of earth, tar and licorice, pours in a rush along the palate, not held up by oak or tannins, both subsumed into the fabric of the wine.

Each $175.00

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Catalog:

Aged Wines, Red Wines, Cabernet Sauvignon

Region:

Coonawarra

Cellaring:

Enjoy now 10+ years

Foods:

Slow cooked Lamb Shanks

Oak:

6 months in a combination of new & used French oak hogsheads & barriques. 21% new, remainder 1-5 year old hogsheads and barriques.

Nose:

Dark, concentrated aromatics of black olive, mulberry and baked meats are elegantly fused with bay leaf and fennel seed, creating an opulent and complex wine.

Palate:

Supple and polished, this wine first displays concentrated black olive and mulberry, which lead to elegant tobacco, cassis and hints of rosemary. Powerful and restrained, the melding of concentrated dark fruit, subtle savoury notes and definitive, firm, bright chalky tannins, create a timeless wine with phenomenal purity and length.

Varietal Composition:

Cabernet Sauvignon

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