1984 Wynns Coonawarra Estate Cabernet Sauvignon John Riddoch

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 90.6 points

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  5/16/2014 - dan_smee wrote: 91 Points

  About 2 years into the downward slope. Still some lovely complexity, and the aged characters are very much alive - the wine has just lost too much of that classic John Riddoch cassis fruit that ties it all together so well. Still a really enjoyable wine.

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  4/1/2012 - David Lole Likes this wine: 94 Points

  My last bottle. In terrific condition and drinking superbly. Quintessential Coonawarra with an array of complex aromas and flavours. A case of the whole being substantially greater than sum of the parts. Leafiness, wet earth, cigar box, herbs, capsicum, weedy blackcurrant, hints of creosote, road tar, old leather, iodine, even a bit sweaty saddle! Quite thrilling in the mouth with great moutfeel, plenty of fruit and wonderful integrated savoury oak backing, a terrific line followed by a smooth but resolute finish wrapped in a shroud of cleansing acidity and soft, cuddly tannin. Outstanding bordering on exceptional. 94 points and also worth noting the alcohol level is around 12% (sorry, I forgot to jot down the exact percentile).

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  3/15/2012 - David Lole Likes this wine: 93 Points

  A brilliant wine - fully mature and holding beautifully - smells like a formidable claret from a top year and just happens to almost taste like one too. Outstanding Coonawarra cabernet with magnificent poise and complexity, great structure and terrific length. A wonderful Coonawarra vintage now, thankfully, mainly forgotten and ignored. Drink now. 93 and of a very similar standard to the other bottle I opened a few weeks later. From a very good cellar.

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  1/9/2012 - JerM wrote: 92 Points

  (terence, yaw, pa @ toh tuck) Inky dark in glass. Nose is focused and unctious, with a characteristic vegetal pong of capsicum and stems, with dark berries, dried plums and prunes, smoke and five-spice. Shows a significant fresh acidity upon tasting, rather lean sweetness, there is still quite some well-structured velvety tannins holding things up, and an agreeable dark earth, brambly undertones and beautifully prominent beef consome and mushroom savoriness, peppered with some zingy mint, eucalypt, black pepper, cinnamon and licorice root. Smokey and ashy even, there is also a pinch of tobacco and cedar. Beautifully earthy and textural, some agreeable ferrousness shows in the long, sustained aftertaste. With time in the glass, cherries and raspberries begin to show. A cohesive and lovely drop on its own, if just a tiny tad past its prime.

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  9/11/2011 - JerM wrote: 91 Points

  Dark, mid-garnet in the glass. Strong vegetal nose when first poured, with raunchy capsicum, mint and eucalypt notes. Softening somewhat with time in the glass, the nose now gives way to a distinctive bloom of chinese herb chest - ginseng and tung-kwey (angelica root), among others! On the palate, supple, velvety tannins with some acidity, giving it a classy focused structure with a savoury mushroom-broth base, bits of dark fruit and ashy earth, and a respectably long finish - salivating at the cheeks well after.

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