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| | Vintage | 2012 |  Label 1 of 238 
 | | Type | Red | | Producer | Wynns Coonawarra Estate (web) | | Variety | Cabernet Sauvignon | | Designation | Black Label | | Vineyard | n/a | | Country | Australia | | Region | South Australia | | SubRegion | Limestone Coast | | Appellation | Coonawarra | | UPC Code(s) | 012354052000, 5300283777497, 6564144620004, 9300620000086, 9300620001007, 9300620001472, 9300620001489, 9300620001526, 9300620001533, 9300620001670, 9300620002639, 9300620006880, 9300633774974, 9347466000054 |
| Drinking Windows and Values |
| Drinking window: Drink between 2019 and 2029 (based on 115 user opinions) |
| Community Tasting History |
| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.1 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 206 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Brigitte Bordeaux on 3/31/2024: Som sist, men lite mer integrerade smaker. Mycket fruktigt och gott. (964 views) | | | Tasted by Moloko on 2/11/2024 & rated 94 points: Awesome wine. Complex with vibrant fruits and no sign of aging badly. Blackberry, cigar and subtle mint. This will continue to age wonderfully like a majestic brumby in the southern highlands. (1524 views) | | | Tasted by Bandreas on 12/24/2023: Tasted at Cutler & Co with Bea, Victoria and Martin for Christmas eve dinner:
Nicely complex, deep and long; very many facets. Like Chatters predicted: the wine really blossoms when it has some extended bottle age.
My love for Coonawarra wines continues unabated since more than 50 years.... (1869 views) | | | Tasted by cm2 on 5/20/2023: Excellent drinking now (3524 views) | | | Tasted by Pj28 on 3/26/2023 & rated 92 points: Big bold and robust red, drinking well now but will continue over the next 5 years. A wonderful example of this consistently great Coonawarra red. (3741 views) | | | Tasted by Avid Wino on 9/4/2022 & rated 92 points: Cigar box, mint, blackberry, blackcurrant. Mid weight for a black label. Excellent balance. Ample length. Pretty much bang on average for the label in attributes and quality, and drinking well at 10 years old, though plenty of good years still ahead. (4952 views) | | | Tasted by Vini Ciclismo on 8/20/2022 & rated 88 points: Vintage 2012 Tasting: classic cassis flavours with quite powerful tannins, relatively simple, not overly complex, but has some cedary complexity. (4975 views) | | | Tasted by Vince_chip on 7/13/2022 & rated 92 points: Beaucoup de tanins, un peu rugueux. Tout de même une belle impression de plénitude, beaucoup de fruits très murs.
Finale un brin rustique. (5125 views) | | | Tasted by Brigitte Bordeaux on 3/26/2022: Stor doft, örtigt, eukalyptus förstås, svartvinbär, fylligt komplext, avrundade tanniner, lång eftersmak. Väl värt att vänta på (4836 views) | | | Tasted by PKim on 1/3/2022 & rated 95 points: Drank beautiful today.
Double decanted (4903 views) | | | Tasted by PKim on 12/31/2021 & rated 94 points: This is great stuff
Lots of fruit still.
Tannins are smoothening out. Still mint aromatics but more subtle and not as pronounced as 2015.
Still youthful but likely to improve with further ageing.
Can’t think of a better QPR wine. (4026 views) | | | Tasted by StewartWent on 12/31/2021 & rated 90 points: Bang on in the zone. Soft, just short of plush with grainy berry fruit, vanilla oak. Decent length but the oak helps. (3872 views) | | | Tasted by RichardU71 on 12/10/2021 & rated 92 points: Wonderful Coonawarra expression with lots of dark sweet fruit, great balance with integrated tannins providing a robust foundation making it a great pairing with heavier food. We had it with coffee rubbed fillet which worked really well. Its still young and has many years of development ahead so I will keep the rest of my bottles for a few more years. (3970 views) | | | Tasted by GD77 on 11/26/2021 & rated 93 points: Drinking well but really should give it some more time. Eucalyptus is much stronger than I remember. It is well made, on the richer side of Black Labels still with those lovely furry tannins and acid holding. I honestly think this will be a much longer term wine than say the 2015 which I tried recently. The 2015 has more enjoyment at this point but this should live into its 20s. (3493 views) | | | Tasted by prasm on 10/29/2021 & rated 92 points: Consumed over 2 days (re-sealed and refrigerated), note from day 2. Appearance: Clear, just starting to show some bricking - medium ruby. Nose: Clean, medium+ intensity with developing aromas of blackberry, bell pepper, eucalyptus, saddle leather, and violet. Palate: Dry, medium+ acid and tannin, full body, medium+ intensity with flavors of dried blackberry, eucalyptus, and earth with a long finish. Overall a very good wine with great balance and length along with very good complexity and intensity. Seems to be peaking at this time, drink now or over the next couple years. (3571 views) | | | Tasted by ferronferron on 9/5/2021 & rated 91 points: Good wine but nothing truly distinctive about it. Super bold. Compared to the 2010 this one stands up much to time. Drank over 2-days. Really bold day 1. Smoothed out day two and more drinkable. (4188 views) | | | Tasted by WineHors on 8/27/2021: Very nice perfume nose and soft with slight cool minty w/ light-medium weight (4207 views) | | | Tasted by Raki on 8/8/2021: I think the wine is in a bit of a dull phase right now. Hanging in no mans land. Still, a tidy wine with promise. Will be revisiting in another couple of years. (4356 views) | | | Tasted by RichardFlack on 7/30/2021 & rated 90 points: Good. Single decant (fine sediment) tasted over about five hours. V dark, looking younger than it’s age. Black fruit on nose. Palate is polished, tannins have smoothed out. Medium to full body. No real secondary notes. Medium length not overly complex. Easy drinking. Should be a crowd pleaser. (4320 views) | | | Tasted by ferronferron on 7/11/2021 & rated 90 points: Thin. Easy drinking. Probably at peak at best. Day two a little weaker than day 1. Low fruit but very drinkable. (4218 views) | | | Tasted by mrwineface on 7/10/2021 & rated 92 points: Plenty of fruit, acidity on the mid and back palate, tannins working and integrating well. It’s like a wash of velvet over the mouth. High quality new world Cabernet in that SA style. Will go another 10 years. (3666 views) | | | Tasted by whme on 6/26/2021 & rated 94 points: Agree, about to enter a gorgeous zone. Well balanced. Plenty fruit to carry this many more years. No rush. (3837 views) | | | Tasted by Screwcaps on 4/17/2021 & rated 94 points: 2012 Wynns
Filtered and immediate double decant back in to the bottle 8 hours ahead of wife’s birthday dinner.
Drank from crap cafe style goblets (expected much more of the restaurant given their high corkage rate, but then again the champagne flutes they gave us for a Billi BdB were Duralex too) this was enjoyed by all- even non red drinkers.
It’s hitting its drinking window. The wine remains dark in colour, and flavours fresh, but the tannins have softened and now very supple. No obvious typical mint either. No tertiary flavours evident in this setting, this was certainly a crowd pleaser. Even my wife, who rarely drinks red, found this Cabernet to her liking.
Again, from sub par glasses and a party environment, this medium weight dry red is in the zone to enjoy now. But it will hold for 10 years or more such is its youthfulness and structure. No less than last bottle, 94. (4579 views) | | | Tasted by HU on 3/17/2021 & rated 93 points: We always loved this wine! Excellent cab, unfolds after an hour or two, with spices, pepper, blackberry and an intriguing potpourri of tastes and nuances. (4743 views) | | | Tasted by Matt@5453 on 3/3/2021 & rated 90 points: Decanted for an hour before consumption. Very tightly wound initially, it slowly started to open up a bit more over the ensuing hours. Very youthful still, primary fruits on display; Cassis, tabacco leaf, with nice spice tones from the French oak. The tannins have softened since I last tried it, but still a bit firm on the finish. Still showing good acidity. A nice finish with a touch of menthol. Overall I feel it is a 'young' wine still, given good storage conditions and screw cap – I think its best years will be drinking from 15-20 years of age. (4771 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
| By James Suckling
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| Wynns Coonawarra Estate Producer website
The winemakers at Wynns
1951-53 Ian Hickinbotham
1954-58 Norm Walker
1961-68 Jock Redman
1971-77 Ken Ward
1978-85 John Wade
1986-97 Peter Douglas
1989-95 Peter Bissell
1993-present Sue Hodder
1998-present Sarah Pidgeon 2012 Wynns Coonawarra Estate Cabernet Sauvignon Black LabelGrape Variety Cabernet Sauvignon
Maturation
Matured for 16 months in a mixture of 25% new and 75% older French oak barriques, hogsheads and vats.
Colour
A densely coloured wine with a vivid purple hue.
Nose
A diverse array of blackberry, dark cherry and black olive, further complexed by notes of liquorice, violets and tobacco. Classy oak contributes cigarbox nuances.
Palate
The rich dark palate is filled with blackberry and black olive. Classic supple, powdery tannins and balanced acidity, frame the dense core of fruit creating a beautifully balanced wine. Refined French oak supports the pristine fruit ensuring the wine finishes with poise, balance and seamless length.
Vineyard Region Coonawarra
Vintage Conditions
2012 is an excellent vintage and this Wynns ‘Black Label’ Cabernet will once again provide a benchmark for this wonderful Coonawarra season.
Wine Analysis
Harvest Date Feb – March 2012
pH 3.6
Acidity 6.3g/L
Alcohol 13.5%
Residual Sugar 0.4
Peak Duration Depending on personal taste, this wine will reward careful cellaring for 5-15 yearsCabernet SauvignonCabernet Sauvignon is probably the most famous red wine grape variety on Earth. It is rivaled in this regard only by its Bordeaux stablemate Merlot, and its opposite number in Burgundy, Pinot Noir. From its origins in Bordeaux, Cabernet has successfully spread to almost every winegrowing country in the world. It is now the key grape variety in many first-rate New World wine regions, most notably Napa Valley, Coonawarra and Maipo Valley. Wherever they come from, Cabernet Sauvignon wines always seem to demonstrate a handful of common character traits: deep color, good tannin structure, moderate acidity and aromas of blackcurrant, tomato leaf, dark spices and cedarwood.
Used as frequently in blends as in varietal wines, Cabernet Sauvignon has a large number of common blending partners. Apart from the obvious Merlot and Cabernet Franc, the most prevalent of these are Malbec, Petit Verdot and Carmenere (the ingredients of a classic Bordeaux Blend), Shiraz (in Australia's favorite blend) and in Spain and South America, a Cabernet – Tempranillo blend is now commonplace. Even the bold Tannat-based wines of Madiran are now generally softened with Cabernet SauvignonAustralia Wine Australia (Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation) | Australian Wines (Wikipedia)South Australia South Australian Wine Industry Association | South Australian Wines (Wikipedia)Limestone Coast Limestone CoastCoonawarra Coonawarra |
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