Balnaves Of Coonawarra The Tally Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2005

Made by Balnaves Of Coonawarra in Australia (region: Coonawarra) .

A dry, still, red wine with 14.5% alchohol tasted on 28th Nov 2007.

Grape: Cabernet Sauvignon

Quality: Outstanding

Value: A Little Excessive

Cost: Usually between $79.99 - $120.99.

Looks: Deep purple colour, yet still not totally black until the heart of the wine - medium to just full bodied in look

Smells: Black berry fruit, licorice, cedar and undergrowth - bracken fern

Feels: Medium bodied to full bodied

Tastes: Wow. What a wine! There is so much going on here. Black berry fruit at its core, yet a full red earthy tone and complex green ferny undergrowth permeate this wine as well. Some dry spice is there - and a solid meaty cedary finish that hangs for grim death - in fact, this is a very intense long finishing wine. I am struggling to remember a wine as complex and beautiful as this one that I have tasted in the last few years - this is just brilliant.

Possible retailers: Cellar Door / Web Site, Dan Murphy's, Kemeny's, Winestar.