Wynns Coonawarra Estate Black Label Cabernet Shiraz 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Wynns Coonawarra Estate Black Label Cabernet Shiraz 2024.

Wynns Coonawarra Estate Black Label Cabernet Shiraz 2024
$45, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, Coonawarra.

Grown on the McBain Road vineyards at the north end of Coonawarra. 57% Cabernet Sauvignon, 43% shiraz. Matured for 14 months in all-French oak, 30% new.

This is medium weight and charming. It’s beautifully fruited, red and darker currant flavours doing the job, and then gently toasty, and herbal, and saltbush-like, and svelte. It shows bright/sweet fruit flavours of ripe plums and red cherries but then cabernet fruit takes over, adding both bass and treble and then keeping it going through the finish. Notes of bay leaves and tobacco linger through the aftertaste, positively. Nothing is out of place here, and everything is in good form. 94 points.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of both the highly respected The Winefront site (founded 2002) and Mattinson Photography.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

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