2012 Wynns Coonawarra Estate Shiraz V & A Lane

Community Tasting Notes (12) Avg Score: 91.4 points

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  1/17/2024 - HU Likes this wine: 92 Points

  We got this as a present from a good friend, since Wynn‘s wine are nearly impossible to buy in the U.S. ( anyone know a source ) and he was in Australia, where we had been a few years prior. In fact, a Cabernet-Shiraz from Wynn‘s a few years back, enjoying two bottles of it at a small restaurant in nearly empty, tiny Coonawara, brought us into collecting wines in the first place. So this one brought back all kinds of pleasant memories. It tasted exactly as we remembered. Very enjoyable, very Coonawara, and hopefully, I will be back there one day.

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  1/20/2023 - Redwineobsessed wrote: 89 Points

  2 hour decant. Not much on the nose. Colour is good. No flaws detected. Was quite muted, red sweet fruit but felt out of sorts. Waited another hour and it came together. It is light, not a lot on the nose or palate. I was always looking for more. Maybe I missed the window. Meh but easily drinkable and not memorable. Disappointing at the price point.

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  11/30/2022 - graemeg wrote:

  {screwcap, 13.5%} Mildly developing but reticent nose. A touch steely, despite the white pepper nose. Faintly musty, in a neutral way. Brambles, cranberry. Moderate acid on the palate, a hint of syrupy blueberry fruit, but a bit thin and stretched. And still the white pepper. Fine, low level powdery tannins, not a lot of oak apparent. Low-key palate, short/medium finish. Auction buy, may have had dubious storage. OTOH, the best fruit all goes into the Michael shiraz. So, who knows? On this showing, drink up.

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  9/7/2021 - graemeg wrote:

  {screwcap, 13.5%} Youthful dark garnet. Fresh nose, spice and coconut aromas, not obviously oaky, but fruit well towards the red spectrum, not black. Sweetly fruited palate nonetheless, a darker hue of black cherry, blackberry, fine dusty tannins which are a bit anonymous, low/medium acidity. It seems to have all the components, but without a lot of personality. Some of that may come with time, or it may be a reflection of a balanced, medium weight wine that’s still a bit young to fulfil potential. Dry, finely judged finish of medium length and good presence along the tongue. Coonawarra shiraz flies a bit under the radar and this is a prime example. I’d like to think it will go somewhere really interesting, but I’m tempered by a lingering sense of ‘commercial recipe’ that hangs around it a bit. Sound, decent, pretty good wine.

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  7/14/2020 - Wolffy Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Very light, thin flavours on first day. Really opened up nicely after a few days and really needed to. Very good balance, sophistication and subtlety. Personally think it could do with some more punchy flavours but it certainly is very easy to drink! Strawberries and forest fruits, with some chocolate and gentle oak.

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