Balnaves The Tally Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2006 VERY LIMITED

Description

Hailing from Coonawarra. this is arguably Australia ™s best cabernet.

Owner. Doug Balnaves came up with the name as a young bloke he was a shearer of merino Sheep. The Tally stands for Australian tradition. skill and hard work . Grown on the famous Terra Rossa strip and usually made up of 2 Vineyards. ˜Dead Morris ™ and ˜Walker ™. The grapes receive a long maceration on skins and spend about 20 months in French Oak. Only produced in the best years. the wine is initially always a very firm and tannic and has a maturation potential of more than 20 years

96 points James Halliday “Beautifully crafted and delineated cassis fruit. framed by gently toasty oak and some floral notes. the palate is rich. deep. fine and very long. the brightness of fruit at the core is the essence of this wine. Cellar 2030 ”

95 points Gary Walsh. The Wine Front “A huge wine flooded with Cassis. blackberry and raspberry fruit. a liberal application of complex oak offering toast. cedar. spice. nougat and play doh with additional characters of black liquorice. mint and a few violets just poking their heads above the surface. It ™s full bodied with enormous extract and flavour. dense and brooding with a big spread of chalky tannin and extreme length of flavour. A powerhouse that needs at least a decade of cellaring. “