1999 Wynns Coonawarra Estate Cabernet Sauvignon John Riddoch

Community Tasting Notes (25) Avg Score: 91.7 points

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  8/18/2023 - chatters wrote:

  Coonawarra Roadshow (Masonic Hall, Goulburn street): "Served Blind
  Medium minus intensity aromas of blackcurrant, sweet spice, cedar, leather. Juicy, fleshy, savoury, a little fresh sourness to the black fruit, savoury underpin, chewy tannins, tight, slightly chalky. This felt late 90's but wasn't 96 or 98 so I plumped for 99 and lucked out."

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  7/29/2023 - lightning wrote: 92 Points

  Typical John Riddoch with some age. Nose of cassis and baking spices. Medium to full bodied, deeply fruited cassis midpalate with green capsicum, good persistence. Can be approached now, but would continue cellaring for further tertiary development - no rush with these 90s JRs.

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  12/7/2022 - graemeg wrote:

  NobleRottersSydney - Champagne (Fix, St James, Sydney): {cork, 13.5%} [Kim] Uncorked for an hour, decanted just prior to serving. Developing nose is a mix of oak and currants. A malty note too; bourbon and oak; it’s no Bordeaux, that’s for sure. But still attractive. On the palate sweet oak, and charcoal, and caramel too, but also plenty of curranty cabernet. Medium/full weight, medium dusty tannins, lowish acidity. Medium length finish, not quite so complex as you’d like. I think the late 90s JR were heading towards a dead-end kind of style (evidenced by the 50% retail price-cut to shift built-up stocks); in retrospect it was the right decision to replant vineyards and halt production as they did for 2000-02. No rush to drink these but temper your expectations a bit…

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  11/21/2022 - Peter246 Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Omg still the best doesn't not get much better

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  11/18/2022 - cab blends wrote: 88 Points

  NOT blind and not decanted.
  
  Initial nose is medicinal and distracting. Give this 15 to 30 mins in the glass and a new wine emerges.
  
  After a while in the glass, tobacco and leather begins to come through. Still nice red color with garnet but no copper.
  
  Body has softened considerably. Nicely balanced. Light to medium tannins with a lingering finish with some light acidity. Light thinning strawberries on the palate.
  
  Hl 4. Fd 4. Tan 4/10

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