Balnaves

The Tally Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2007

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  Vintage 2007
  97 points www.winecompanion.com.au

Power and grace; loaded with sweet oak, the quality of fruit beneath is up to the task; layered cassis, redcurrant, cedar and violet bouquet; great concentration of fruit on the palate, with a refreshingly vibrant core of acid and pure fruit; lots of slippery fine-grained tannins that counterpoint the vibrant and complex fruit with ease; wonderfully long and satisfying.

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  Vintage 2007
  94 points www.winefront.com.au

...Sweet spicy vanilla and cocoa oak, cassis, raspberry and black tea with a minty menthol edge are the flavours and smells of this impenetrably tannic, concentrated and tres muscular wine. It’s so brooding and backwards at present that think I may have fallen into a black hole while tasting it, and lost a couple of days somewhere along the line. I mean how else did I get that strange bump on my head? All the components are in place for the long haul and I’m guessing (or hoping) those strong, slightly bitter tannins will resolve themselves with time in bottle. No fun now, none whatsoever, but plenty later.