Wynns Single Vineyard Cabernet Franc 2025
$80, 12.9% alcohol, screwcap, Coonawarra.
Structure is the key here. This is medium-weight at most but it feels as though it’s been built to cellar. It shows notes of hay, box hedge, twiggy herbs and tobacco, though all this is run through with redcurrant and boysenberry. The finish of this wine is its most emphatic point; as if its eyes are set on the horizon. In 5+ years this will be very good. 92+ points.
Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
