98 Point Rated - James Halliday Wine Companion
Coonawarra enjoyed a perfect 10 out of 10 growing season. The triumph is the alcohol, which gives the wine a freshness, a clarity and perfect length and balance. The best Black Label Cabernet made to date from Wynns’ vast viticultural resources across Coonawarra.

97 Point Rated - Jane Faulkner Halliday Wine Companion
The 64th vintage. A wine of provenance. A wine of excellence. It ages superbly, yet is flattering when young. Perfect fruit at its core, with gentle flavours of cassis, blackberries and blueberries. It has depth, length and line, thanks to the fine, detailed tannins. Classy cabernet. This is up there as one of the finest to date. Bravo.

97 Point Rated - Ray Jordan
Oh, it does the heart good to see this wine singing such a beautiful tune these days. It remains one of my favourite Aussie cabernets for so many reasons – history and quality are two, but then there is how it almost mirrors my own journey in wine from the time I first tasted one of these. In fact I have been fortunate to have participated in vertical tastings of every wine back to that seminal 1954, and they remain among my most cherished memories in Australian wine. This has a beautiful seductive cherry and red berry aroma augmenting the cassis of Coonawarra cabernet. The palate delivers high energy and brightness as it drives to an effortlessly long finish. Highly polished and elegant with a suave poise. These wines cellar for decades if you wish.

96 Point Rated - Huon Hooke The Real Review
A very deep, bright, youthful purple colour leads into a superbly ripe cabernet nose, black fruits and smoky, graphite aromas with a faint suggestion of bitumen or creosote. No greener, leafy notes at all. The wine is full-bodied yet elegantly stated, with richness and intensity and terrific palate length. There's a lovely fruit-sweet core to it. It's definitely a warmer-year Coonawarra cabernet. This is a cracking Black Label.

96 Point Rated - Tony Love

96 Point Rated - Ken Hughson

94 Point Rated - Mike Bennie The Wine Front
Svelte, taut and tannin shaped, a superb wine of bold aromatics, dark berries, plum, new leather, mahogany and sage leaf characters, with flavours that echo that bouquet but dials in graphite-like minerality, a lick of malt and that swish of lacy yet firming tannin. Has a sense of darker, more brooding inkiness that some past releases, but the lift of freshness, an almost mint-and-botanical-like lick to acidity, has the wine in a-grade vitality. Totally in form. Wonderful again.

93 Point Rated – Campbell Mattinson The Wine Front
It’s an approachable Black Label though its cellaring future remains assured. It’s approachable because it’s so well balanced. The weave of cedarwood-and-choc oak through blackcurrant-and-mint fruit is impeccable. The fruit is neither bright nor dull; it’s sit in that comfortable mid zone so often inhabited by the best of the more traditional wines. I sat with this wine for a few hours and the tannin, fine-grained, just kept on spreading out, tide-like. Perhaps what I loved most about this wine though was that, for all its sweet, ripe fruit, it remains true to its tobacco-and-herb varietal roots. It’s quite lovely; I’d buy it in a heart-beat.

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International Wine and Spirit Competition 2022