2005 Wynns Coonawarra Estate John Riddoch Cabernet Sauvignon

96 Points - Jeremy Oliver
Exceptionally harmonious, complete and elegant, with deep, dense layers of aroma and flavour. A heady perfume of violets and iris precedes a long, firm and seamless palate that deftly knits its alluring blackberry, cassis and dark plum flavours with dark chocolate/cedar/vanilla oak, undertones of dried herbs and black olives and an assertive spine of fine-grained tannin. It finishes with poise and a lingering, pristine core of sour-edged flavour.

17.5+ - Julia Harding MW, jancisrobinson.com (Tasted 19 Aug 2009)
Black as black. Rich and perfumed and peppery. Much tighter on the palate. Fine but very firm linear sort of tannins. Firm and dry and long. Needs more time. (JH)