Joshua Cooper Wines - Redbank Old Vines Cabernet Sauvignon - 2024

Redbank Vineyard is quite spectacular, a historical place in Aus wine for sure. This from the 1970s vines too. Josh Cooper’s cabernet vision continues. Quite the wonderful thing really. This feels old school-good school, proper vin de garde in style, earthy, dusty, powdery, brittle and acid driven, a touch of mint, brambles and dried flowers, black tea and sooty spice – a lifetime with this wine. Salted plums, liquorice, pickled red cherries, hazelnut. So many descriptors to pack in. Tannins somewhere between refreshing and very grippy, firm and bitter, it works, for the most part, but time should also help. It’s charming and curious and an experience as it stands now. I was compelled to keep going and checking in, a good sign for this. 95+ Points Mike Bennie, The Wine Front