Wine review: Katnook Estate Founders Block Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon 2014

Katnook Estate Founders Block Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon 2014, $17.95-$20

Katnook's wine connection dates from Coonawarra's first vintage, when industry founder, John Riddoch, processed his 1896 vintage in Katnook's woolshed. Though now part of Spain's Freixenet​ Group, Katnook wines continue to be made by Wayne Stehbens​ who had his first vintage there in 1979. Coonawarra's second-largest producer shows its class and versatility with this pure and solid expression of the regional cabernet style. It combines cassis and black-olive-like varietal fruit flavours on a medium-bodied palate, but through the variety's assertive, firm tannins. It's a roast lamb or steak wine for sure and very satisfying.