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Condition Cellared
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Lot ID 0002-10731460
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Langton’s Classified: Excellent

Top Vintage

This is Coonawarra Cabernet at its best. Intensely varietal and tightly structured, with volumes of ripe Cabernet fruit complemented by charry French oak. Needs long term cellaring to bring out the richness and the complexity of this powerful Cabernet.

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Region:
SA - Coonawarra
State:
South Australia
Country:
Australia

Expert Reviews

"Dark, deep red-purple; the bouquet is as concentrated and rich as one would expect, with a mix of blackberry and blackcurrant fruit; ample but not excessive oak. The palate is immensely powerful and concentrated, precisely as one would expect from Riddoch in a vintage such as '96, with a full panoply of dark, black fruit flavours, tannin and oak."

Rating 96 Drink 2016 - James Halliday, Wine Companion - Date Tasted Dec 98

Winery Tasting Notes

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Wynns Coonawarra Estate is the oldest established winery in Australia’s most celebrated fine wine region – Coonawarra. The Estate was founded by pioneer John Riddoch, who planted vineyards in 1891 and completed the estate’s famous triple gabled winery in 1896.

“Coonawarra owes its unique reputation as a wine region to a thin layer of rich red soil - `terra rosa` which lies over porous limestone, providing its vines with ideal drainage conditions to produce intensely flavoured grapes. These grapes also benefit from a long, slow ripening season due to Coonawarra’s cool southerly climate.

This is Coonawarra Cabernet at its best. Intensely varietal and tightly structured, with volumes of ripe Cabernet fruit complemented by charry French oak. Needs long term cellaring to bring out the richness and the complexity of this powerful Cabernet." Sue Hodder - Winemaker.

Winery Profile

In 1891 the famous triple gabled winery and surrounding vineyards were built and planted by John Riddoch and called the Chateau Camoum. Riddoch’s vineyards are the core of today’s Wynns Coonawarra Estate, with his winery, essentially unchanged, forming the centrepiece of the operation.

Following John Riddoch’s death in 1901 the Coonawarra Estate languished for 50 years until 1951 when Samuel Wynn and Co, the Melbourne-based wine makers and merchants, purchased the winery and vineyards.

After much hard work, over the next 30 years Wynns gradually increased its holdings in the Coonawarra and by 1981 was the largest grower in the district with 440 hectares under vine.

Coonawarra's fame comes mostly from a freakish natural phenomenon called the terra rossa. Meaning literally 'red earth', the terra rossa is a low, cigar-shaped ridge of soil some 15 kilometres long and up to 1 kilometre wide.

Coonawarra - which is an Aboriginal word meaning 'honeysuckle' - is an isolated region 450 kilometres away from Melbourne and 380 kilometres from Adelaide. Coonawarra is renowned for its unique geological and climatic features - ideal for growing vines bearing the highest quality grapes.

Like all great wine regions of the world, Coonawarra's climate is cool and marginal. It is South Australia's southernmost wine region, positioned just 80 kilometres from the chilly southern ocean and cold Antarctic winds. The vines are assured a long, cool ripening period that builds up the intensity of flavours slowly in the grape and ensures a balanced acidity. The resulting wines will always be among Australia's finest for their richness, intensity, flavour and longevity.

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Other Information

  • 1996 vintage
  • 1 x 750mL unit
  • SA - Coonawarra, South Australia
  • Cork closure

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Wines displaying a 5 star designation are recognised as being of proven quality provenance, our team has verified that the wine has been stored correctly from original purchase straight from the winery, documentation, where possible, has been sighted and cellaring conditions have been inspected. This wine generally comes from only the best and most respected of wine collectors in Australia.

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Wynns `John Riddoch` Cabernet Sauvignon 1996 (1 x 750mL) SA.

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