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97
/ 100
Huon Hooke -
96
/ 100
Campbell Mattinson -
95
/ 100
Andrew Caillard MW
Red
Classification
Cabernet Sauvignon
Variety
2020
Vintage
750ml (Bottle)
Bottle Size
Australia
Country
South Australia, Coonawarra
Region
13.4%
Alcohol %
15 Plus Years
Cellaring
Scores
97 / 100""Impressively dense, dark, glass-staining colour with a strong tint of purple. Concentrated and superripe blackberry aromas, bright and intense and beautifully ripe with minimal herbal accents. Nuances of tar and licorice as well. It's full bodied and rich, concentrated and ample, with lashings of supple, fine-grained tannins and a long carry. A powerful wine but one that glides across the palate effortlessly. A beautiful and long-term cabernet.""
- Huon Hooke
96 / 100
""The combination of both elegance and command here is quite astonishing. This isn't a big wine and yet it still somehow manages to lay down the law. It tastes of blackcurrant, redcurrant, bay leaf and dried tobacco, though it's the swagger of (integrated) tannin and the gentle infusion of gravel-like notes that really take it up a gear. This is a wonderful wine.""
- Campbell Mattinson
95 / 100
""A lustrous deep crimson. The oak is a little fuzzy and unresolved, but this is a full weighted wine built to go a considerable distance, despite the cooler, challenging conditions. It seems more gently extracted than usual as a result. The fruit is a bit sweet and the texture rounder. Sourced from just a single block. Mottled blue fruits, black pastille, mulberry, licorise strap and clove, with a fleck of tea tree across the finish. The tannins, gritty, chewy and nicely moreish, although a cushy approachability. Best to wait. Drinkable now, but best from 2027.""
- Andrew Caillard MW
Tasting Notes
First made in 1982, the John Riddoch Cabernet Sauvignon was conceived as a flagship wine for Wynns. John Riddoch himself was a true visionary. Amongst his many achievements are the building of the Wynns Gabled winery and the establishment of the Coonawarra Fruit Colony
John Riddoch Cabernet Sauvignon is made in small quantities from the best available fruit grown on the estate's extensive Cabernet Sauvignon plantings in the heart of the terra rossa soil It has become a definitive Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon, made only in years when grapes of extraordinarily high quality are available, using less than one percent of the top-quality Cabernet Sauvignon grapes.
Notably lifted and intense aromatics. Black olive, raspberry, dried bayleaf, musky notes/red licorice, blue flower/violets; brambles or crushed raspberry leaf. Initially subdue but opens up gradually.
Medium bodied with balanced powdery tannins.
The fruit will grow into the frame in a short time. Baked Plum cake and gent
Tasting Profile
- Light
- Full
- Low Tannin
- Tannic
- Sweet
- Dry
- Low Acidity
- High Acidity