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First made in 1982, the Wynns Coonawarra Estate John Riddoch was conceived as a flagship wine to be made in small quantities from the best fruit available from the estate's extensive Coonawarra Cabernet plantings. It has since become the definitive Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon - and is arguably richer and more concentrated than any other wine in the region.
It is made only in years when grapes of extraordinarily high quality are available. Indeed, just one per cent of the top Cabernet grapes are used to make it. Wynns Coonawarra Estate
First made in 1982, and only vintaged in the best years, and then from the finest material available. It is matured in new French and American oak hogsheads for 12-15 months, and is a wine of enormous concentration and power. Vertical tastings over the past few years have shown that at somewhere about seven years of age the wine typically undergoes a remarkable transformation, opening up almost overnight. We are still to see how long the ensuing plateau will last, for none of the wines back to 1982 have started to decline. James Halliday
