Jim Barry The Cover Drive Cabernet Sauvignon 2009 from Jim Barry Wines Australia, is a wine of a brilliant deep red colour and showing a nose of sweet oak, blackberry and cassis fruit. Rich and full-bodied, with ripe blackberry fruit and subtle vanillin oak and a lingering finish supported by fine grained tannins and aged for 12 months in American and French oak.
On the southern boundary of Coonawarra is the old Penola cricket ground, which first saw a ball bowled in anger and the flashing cover drives of the local champions in 1950. Sadly, the ground closed in 1996. Soon after Jim Barry purchased the 30 acre property and planted a Cabernet Sauvignon vineyard. The original pavilion and pitch have been retained, thus preserving an important piece of Coonawarra sporting history.
Decanter Silver Award Winner 2010 with a distinctive cricketing label.
"This reassuringly rich and full-bodied red from South Australia derives its name from the cricket pitch in Coonawarra next to where the Cabernet Sauvignon vines were planted in 1996. Given enough time to develop in the bottle, there is tobacco and cedar on the nose, a very soft mouthfeel and flavours of black cherries and cassis with a touch of oak. Rare roast beef ought to be the order of the day."
Anthony Rose - The Independent, 25th March 2012
