Re: Wynns V&A Lane 212
whats your comparison to it with vinomofo wines? and your vivno rating?
Hello Beefarmer. Just picked this up. In this slippers-and-doze epoch that I now find myself in, I tend to be asleep by 9ish these days! I doubt I will see deal 16 of a Fo FaceBook Sale! Maybe that's because the kids are kicking around from 5 in the morning at the moment - bring on Day Light Savings, I hear myself say!
I digress. Back to the wine:
I drank and reviewed the V&A over three nights back in August 2015. My Vivino post read:
"Day 1: Very drinkable, with some subtle lawyers of cherry and oak, and smooth tannins. Day 2: Consistent taste and texture, boding well for cellaring potential. Day 3: The fruit really came into its own, with berries and chocolate brimming, with a dash of spice at the end. Great wine with great potential.
My Vivino rating: 4*
I suspect if I had opened this up, decanted it, and left it for a few hours, then all those wonderful fruit and chocolate flavours, and that smooth finish, would have been evident from the first sip.
At the mid twenty odd Dollar Fo price, it's a great wine, and will only get better with some extended hibernation. [I am back to the sleep theme again ...!!]
In terms of a comparison to other recent Cab Sauv Fo wines, in my humble opinion:
a. it was more sophisticated than the Wynns Black Label 12 - that was more fruit bomb like;
b. it was marginally better than the Robert Bowen 12, which was a lovely wine once the aniseed had blended into the background and the fruit did the talking;
c. it was marginally better than the Devil's Lair 12, which was similar in style, but a bit more subtle; and
d. it was on a par with the Amelia Park 12 - the Amelia Park was very drinkable and very sophisticated from the first sip.
So, it's a photo finish then in terms of these 5 excellent Sab Sauv wines from the Fo.
They all got a Vivno 4* rating from me. These are all young wines based on their cellaring potential, so it will be interesting to circle back to this post in 3 and 5 years time to see how they are developing. I suspect some will surge ahead of others, but not sure what the pecking order will be ...
