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98
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98
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97+
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97
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97
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Tasting Notes
Made in small quantities from the best available fruit grown on the estate's extensive Cabernet Sauvignon plantings in the heart of the terra rossa soil It has become a definitive Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon, made only in years when grapes of extraordinarily high quality are available, using less than one percent of the top-quality Cabernet Sauvignon grapes.
Tasting Profile
- Light
- Full
- Low Tannin
- Tannic
- Sweet
- Dry
- Low Acidity
- High Acidity
Classification: Red
Variety: Cabernet Sauvignon
Vintage: 2019
Bottle Size: 750ml (Bottle)
Country: Australia
Region: South Australia, Coonawarra
Alcohol %: 13.4%
Cellaring: 15 Plus Years
Scores
98 / 100"It spent 16 months in French oak (31% new). This is a wine of extraordinary quality. Small wonder winemaker Sue Hodder says it’s “amongst the best wines we have made”. It is mediumbodied, and so agile in the mouth, no one flavour dominates at any stage of its consumption."
- James Halliday's Wine Companion
98 / 100
"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."
- Winsor Dobbin
97+ / 100
"Like the 2018 that preceded it, this is a wine of stature, precision and endurance. The tannins are fine and omnipresent, but then a cabernet without tannins would be like a person without purpose. This is direct, forthright and confident, with a core of pure, soft and unfettered berry fruits that cascade over the tongue and trail through the interminable finish. The piercing intensity of fruit on the middle palate echoes in the mouth. Truly, sublime."
- Erin Larkin
97 / 100
"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. Don't touch it for seven years at least. Even then.."
- Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
97 / 100
"Deep and intense ruby core with a brightness at the rim. A heady nose with blackberry, graphite and oak spice nuances that sings of the variety and region. Palate has an ethereal quality to it, intense dark fruit with layers of dry earth, ironstone and all make for a full-bodied wine yet there’s a deftness of touch that keeps you returning for further inspection. Tannins are finely integrated with power and precision to an incredibly long finish. A benchmark cabernet from Coonawarra"
- Stuart Knox
