2021 John Riddoch Cabernet Sauvignon

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Deep inky purple, full concentration, gorgeous chalky tannins, this is just such a consistently impressive wine, with stretched out architecture and a real kick of freshness, full of Cabernet Sauvignon cassis that sits on the edge of capsicum and eucalyptus, with rose bud and raspberry leaf, black truffle, espresso, cocoa bean, peppery fleshy plum. Savoury, intense and highly spiced. Great quality, tasted twice, easily one of the best wines of the September Releases.
98/100 Jane Anson

Wynns John Riddoch Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon 2021 (Coonawarra, South Australia; 100% Cabernet Sauvignon; aged for 16 months in French oak, roughly half of which were hogsheads, half barriques; pH 3.56; 13.5% alcohol). Wynns’ flagship wine since its first release in 1982, made in small quantities from the best Cabernet Sauvignon plots in the heart of its terra rossa holdings. An almost luminous shocking pink-purple rim and practically opaque at the core. A huge step up from the already impressive Black Label Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon, this is seriously impressive in 2021. Wild herbs – thyme, rosemary, perhaps a hint of violet and rose petal – accompany the dark briary berry fruits and the raspberry and loganberry notes. There’s a lovely note of roasted hazelnut shells too. This is very open and expressive aromatically, more so than the 2020 tasted this time last year. There’s a little cassis with aeration and the finest dark chocolate ganache. In the mouth, this is fabulously impressive, with gentle, soft and ultra-fine grained tannins holding the fruit quite tightly to a pronounced central spinal column richly covered in dense, intense and concentrated dark berry fruits. Long and slowly tapering on the finish, with the granularity of the tannins almost massaging the fruit into the palate. I love the lithe, sapid and lifted finish. Elegant for a wine with so much natural power. As good a vintage of this wine as I have ever tasted.
97/100 Colin Hay; The Drinks Business