Winsor’s choice: DiGiorgio Family 2008 Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon

Winsor Dobbin

The DiGiorgio family are unsung heroes of the Limestone Coast wine region, producing nicely balanced wines at very fair prices. This is a classic – and affordable – Coonawarra cabernet with ripe, supple and sweet dark fruit characters matched by black olives notes, soft tannins and unobtrusive toasty French oak. Made by veteran Coonawarra winemaker Peter Douglas in the historic former Rouge Homme winery, this ticks all the regional boxes and will probably cellar well for a decade or more. But my bet is most of it will be drunk relatively young – it’s a hard wine to resist. $26. www.digiorgio.com.au.

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