First produced in 1954, and widely known as ‘Black Label’, Wynns Coonawarra Estate Cabernet Sauvignon has established a reputation for displaying excellent varietal and regional characteristics. The wine is produced from only the top 20-25% of Cabernet fruit available from Wynns Coonawarra Estate.

It's hard to not have high expectations for this wine and yet each vintage you have to be impressed with its poise and delivery of beauty in your glass. Cassis and subtle hints of Ribena. Black cherries, creeping ivy and crushed volcanic rock. A hint of lilac and bramble. The wine stands tall with its confidence and primary fruit focus with artful foundations of fine tannins and sinuous acidity. Once again it is tailored to perfection, highly drinkable now and yet with an ageless grace in 5, 10 years and more. Sometimes the original is just too good to go past. Drink to: 2036; Date Tasted: April 2025; Alcohol: 13.8%; Price: $45.00; Rating: 95 Points & Special Value Star; James Halliday Wine Companion

Classic Coonawarra Cabernet. I tasted this over the course of a few hours and with every sip, these were the words that came to mind. It’s medium in body, laced with fine-grained tannin, leafy in an infused way, shows notes of peppercorn and mint, and has the perfect pitch of redcurrant and darker berry flavours. It feels squeaky clean in the best of ways, is taut but not wrenchingly so, and feels generally immaculate. You could cellar this for a long time and it would hold true. The longer I sat with this the more it just seemed to extend. Tasted: April 2025 ; Price: $45.00; Rating: 95 Points; The Wine Front