Wynns John Riddoch Limited Release Cabernet Sauvignon 2019

98 Points - James Halliday

The grapes represent 1% of the total Wynns cabernet harvest. It spent 16 months in French oak (31% new). This is a wine of extraordinary quality. It is medium-bodied, and so agile in the mouth that no one flavour dominates at any stage of its consumption.

98 Points - Winsor Dobbin

This release marks 30 years of Hodder and 40 years of John Riddoch Cabernet, one of Australia's most globally respected high-end wines and a relative bargain at $150 a bottle compared to many rival releases with far inferior pedigrees. The new-release 2019 is one of the greatest; judiciously utilising great fruit to produce a stunning wine. I gave it 98 points, and I'm generally at the lower end of the scorings table. It has intense fruit concentration but also a brightness and lightness about it.

97+ Points - Wine Advocate

The refinement of coopers (a result of repeated and long-term R&D over the years) is now starting to emerge as a key part of the success of these new release, premium wines. The selected one or two coopers work to preface the fruit and support the fruit and show the terroir… This is why we drink wine: to taste the place that it came from and to be transported there, if even for a moment. This 2019 John Riddoch Limited Release Cabernet Sauvignon is exceptional - it is pure and has tannic sway and flow, and the palate is steeped in five spice, raspberry, mulberry, cassis and black tea. Inchoate.