Limited Release Single Vineyard Cabernet Franc 2025
Wynns Coonawarra Estate
Limited Release Single Vineyard Cabernet Franc 2025
Wynns Coonawarra Estate
Limited Release Single Vineyard Cabernet Franc 2025
Overview
Overview
Sourced from the MacKillop vineyard in northern Coonawarra, the 2025 release of Wynns Cabernet Franc builds confidently on the promise shown in its inaugural vintage.
The 2025 season proved another excellent year for Coonawarra Cabernet Franc. Dry picking conditions produced small, clean berries, resulting in a wine of precise regional and varietal expression. A shorter period of skin maceration, complemented by maturation in neutral 3,000L French oak vats, allows the vibrant character of Cabernet Franc to speak with clarity. The wine combines youthful energy with genuine structure, lending itself equally to enjoyment on release or a period of cellaring.
| Varietal | Cabernet Franc |
|---|---|
| Vintage | 2023 |
| Country | Australia |
| Region | Coonawarra |
| Volume | 750 mL |
| Closure | Screw Cap |
| Alc/Vol | 13.1% |
| Peak Drinking | Enjoy Now - 2032+ |
| Winemaker | Sue Hodder |
Awards and Accolades
Awards and Accolades
| 97 Points | Tony Love |
| 95 Points | Ray Jordan |
| 95 Points | Shanteh Wale |
| 92 Points | Steve Leszczynski |
Tony Love | Wine Pilot | May 2026
Every year Wynns winemakers select a single vineyard parcel of fruit to bottle as a limited edition. Ripe raspberry and blackcurrant with a dusty edge. The palate shows vibrant tannins, opening to layered crimson and purple fruit on the finish. Tight and taut with a swirling energy, and bloody delicious.97 Points.
Ray Jordan | Wine Pilot | April 2026
It is the most engaging and quite beautiful wine that expresses this variety so well. It allows the fruit to express all of its glorious qualities, a bright red and black fruit combination. It’s a pretty wine, and yet there is structure here that’ll support medium-term cellaring. 95 Points.
Shanteh Wale | May 2026
This dances on the palate with energy and buoyant lift, making for very exciting drinking now, and yet this still has eight to 15 years of life ahead.95 Points.
Taste Description
Taste Description
Nose
Bright and intense, reveling in its youthful exuberance, it openly expresses fragrant red rose florals with raspberry, cassis and a more savoury graphite edge.
Viticulture Vintage & Winemaking
Viticulture Vintage & Winemaking
Coonawarra, South Australia
Coonawarra, on South Australia’s Limestone Coast, is a flat, isolated region almost mid-point between Adelaide and Melbourne. The area enjoys a cool maritime climate - similar to that of Bordeaux - and is renowned for its unique terra rossa soil. Rich, rust coloured soils… crimson sunburnt faces… magenta sunsets: this is red wine country! While Coonawarra is famous for its rich, minty Cabernet, the area also produces Shiraz and Merlot and surprisingly good Chardonnay and Riesling.
Sue Hodder - Senior Winemaker
Sue Hodder is one of Australia’s best-known winemakers and this year celebrates her 27th vintage with Wynns – making wine from wonderful, expressive fruit grown in the heart of the terra rossa. Sue commenced her career as a viticulturist and believes her early viticultural training – assessing vines, analysing mature fruit and tasting the finished wine – gave her an invaluable insight into the importance of the vineyard in quality winemaking.
Sue brings valuable experience with vintages in other noted wine regions around the world and has judged extensively in Regional, National and International wine shows. She is the recipient of many accolades including GT Wines ‘Winemaker of the Year’ in 2010 (with viticulturist Allen Jenkins); and most recently ‘Winemaker of the Year’ (with Sarah Pidgeon) at the 2016 ASVO awards.