Gourmet Traveller WINE -
Winemaker of the year 2010!
Gourmet Traveller WINE -
Winemaker of the year 2010!"Each vintage Wynns select a premium parcel from a single vineyard to bottle separately. The Glengyle Vineyard was planted in 1969 and is traditionally one of the first Coonawarra Cabernet vineyards to ripen.
2007 was one of the lowest yielding vintages in more than 50 years. It was a challenging vintage preceded by a dry winter and spring, contributing to widespread frost damage. The Glengyle Vineyard bounced back after the frost, albeit with reduced yields of around two tonnes per hectare, producing intense regional and varietal fruit flavours."
Wynns Estate
"The '07 Glengyle Cabernet Sauvignon, on the other hand, has a different fruit character again: a very individual interpretation of Coonawarra cabernet. It's back to a lighter colour but superb hue; the nose is spicy, minerally in an ironstone way, with violets and intricate complexities but less of the berry fruits that you see in the Black Label cabernet of '08. It's more savoury and elegant, with firm-focused tannins, but again there is elegance and subtle detail rather than brute force.
It's an exciting wine and, like the V&A wines and Hodder's reincarnated John Riddoch cabernets, a far cry from the oaky blockbusters of the pre-Hodder era."
Huon Hooke, "Who Dares Wynns" The Age, August 10, 2010
Country:
Australia
Region:
SA- Coonawarra
Variety:
Wine Red - Cabernet
Size:
750mL
