Wynns Single Vineyard 'O'Deas' Red Blend 2016

Wynns is privileged to have some of Coonawarra’s best quality and oldest vineyards. Each year, the Winemakers select just one parcel of wine to bottle separately. In 2016, that vineyard is O’Deas 3.13. This small vineyard has its own personality and we are delighted to bottle this field blend wine from the Odeas 3.13 vineyard. 3.13 refers to the vineyard size – 3.13 hectares. Locally, we call the vineyard, “The Hobbit” as the vines are very short with big feet – the rows (therefore, roots or feet) are very wide. In 1989 the vineyard was planted with several clones of Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot and Malbec. The warmer 2016 vintage enabled us to make a field-blend of the four varieties and the wine expresses the vineyard site. 

Exquisite expression of classic Bordeaux varieties but the unmistakable Terra Rossa flavours pervade. Dried mint with lavender and the pleasing ubiquitous red cherry flavours. Inviting and delicious in its youth, the O’Deas vineyard have the pedigree to enable cellaring for decades. 

"Beautiful perfume that made me think ‘soulful’ as a quicksilver, stream of consciousness response. Fragrant with small dark berries, black olive, pan forte and faint dark choc-mint with whiffs of mahogany or rich wood, but also faint. The palate is compact, concentrated in feel, dense with plummy-olive fruit, licked at by brown spice and clove-wood, shapely, long, glorious, regal tannin profile. Elegance personified and stellar."