Each year, the team at Wynns select a single vineyard from which to make a Cabernet. 2021 was a fine vintage with low rainfall and an early harvest. In previous years with similar conditions, it is the Glengyle Vineyard, just north of V&A Lane, if you know your Coonawarra, which has been selected and so it was again. This vineyard is a small fragment of the vineyard, block 474, the original vines planted by John Riddoch on this plot although they are lost now. In 1969, it was re-planted with pre-clonal Cabernet on its own roots. Opaque maroon, the nose gives us notes of spices, tobacco leaves, blackcurrants, aniseed, mint and chocolate. Excellent focus, really good length, good acidity and silky tannins, it is seamless and with a creamy texture. It is delightfully fresh, but it is undoubtedly built for the long haul. With fine oak integration, this is already approachable, but will surely drink beautifully for the next ten to fifteen years.

95 points, Wine Pilot (May 2023)

Impressive colour: really dark, inky and opaque. Complex and really evocative aromas of blackcurrant, boysenberry, bramble, graphite, pencil shavings and spice. Deep, dark and brooding on the palate, full of mulberry, satsuma plum, spice, vanilla, mocha and mint. The tannins provide real firmness, shape and texture and the acidity has cut and snap. A very impressive cabernet that is built for the long haul.

96 points, The Real Review (May 2023)

Elegant and reserved yet packed with flavour, texture, concentration and beautiful, silky flow. This comes across as more heartland Coonawarra Cab but without too much heft or edifice. Seasoning lends clove and cinnamon characters to cassis, ripe plum, choc-liquorice and sal bush characters. It feels potent and tannins, grippy yet velvety, cinch the wine tightly and to a pucker with each sip. You could say deep and brooding but it still holds medium-ish weight. Complex, layered and very, very good.

96 points, The Wine Front (June 2023)

Grapey, juicy, beautifully floral and energetic. Looser at the seams than the other top wines of the suite, but without their stiff upper lipped astringency. The trajectory of tannin is apposite. The acidity, dutiful. The fruit, all grape spice, cassis, boysenberry, mint and violet, splayed across the mouth by those gorgeous tannins, all ferrous and pulpy and doused with sage and green olive, seeping into their fine grain. An earlier ripening plot, pre-clonal, dating from 1969. A sumptuous mid-weighted claret. Drink or hold.

95 points, JamesSuckling.com (June 2023)

Deep crimson. Fragrant violet, pure cassis aromas with hints of dark chocolate. Expressive wine with blackcurrant, Parma violet, touch cedar flavours, fine grainy/ al dente and sinuous tannins, attractive density and well-balanced marzipan, roasted chestnut oak notes and fresh crisp acidity. Finishes sinewy with bittersweet cacao notes. Delicious minerally wine with seductive pure cassis notes. Drink now – 2034

95 points

Very deep, concentrated red-purple colour, with bell-clear aromas of cassis, blackberry and mulberry, the palate tremendously intense and focused, with very gentle super-fine tannins that run the length of the palate and give a lip-smacking dryness to the aftertaste. A beautiful wine of elegance, purity and grace. An outstanding cabernet, the essence of Coonawarra.

97 points, The Real Review (June 2023)

A single-vineyard cabernet from vines planted in 1969. Matured in 30% new French oak. It's not a monumental wine, in size terms, but it's monumentally beautiful. It makes power look easy; it takes quality in its stride. Blackcurrant and redcurrant flavours come infused with the most fragrant and beguiling of tobacco and herbs characters, all of which are wrapped in a velvety over-shirt of cedary oak. It's classically styled and classically long; the sweetness of the fruit, matched to all those savoury herb notes, is really something to be behold, as is the length, as is the intricacy of the tannin.

96 points, Wine Companion (February 2023)