The 2021 Bin 169 Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon is the premium Cabernet in the range that matured in French oak (16 months, 51% new) and (70% American oak), and as a result, perhaps unsurprisingly, it is the more elegant wine of the pair on release. You get leafy cassis, raspberry, red apple skins, ferrous notes, pomegranate molasses, tobacco and some bay leaf—very pleasing. An intensely powerful wine, it's robust in its way but lithe too. 14.5% alcohol, sealed under natural cork.

Perfumed up front, with notes of dried violet, white pepper, luscious cream soda and milk chocolate, plus aromatics of chai tea, tarragon, toasted cedar and green olive. The tannins are dense but fine-grained, and there's an epic finish where all the flavors fit together in harmony. Drink now through 2044. 50 cases imported.??–MW??Region: Australia / Coonawarra Select to Add