Wynns V&A Lane Cabernet Shiraz 2024

Bottle of Wynns V&A Lane Cabernet Shiraz 2024.

Wynns V&A Lane Cabernet Shiraz 2024
$60, 12.6% alcohol, screwcap, Coonawarra.

It’s noticeably low in alcohol, or perhaps it’s more accurate to say that the elegance of this wine is the first thing that you notice. It’s offers a long, cool, fluid flow of silken flavour. Another clear point of difference here is the tannin profile, which is exceptionally fine; it’s effectively silty, such is its fineness and finesse. In flavour terms it’s so seamless that it’s difficult to tell one flavour from another, but it’s more red-berried than black, and its cedarwood oak and herb/tobacco notes are completely ensconced in the fruit. There’s a gently creaminess to this wine too; just enough for it to qualify as positively soft, though – like most everything in this wine – this aspect is subtle. 94 points.

 
Campbell Mattinson

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.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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