BalnavesCabernet Sauvignon
About this product
- TypeCabernet Sauvignon
- Size750mL
- RegionCoonawarra
- Current Vintage2017* - Vintage is not guaranteed and may vary store to store or when delivered.
- Standard Drinks8.6
- Alcohol Volume14.5%
- CountryAustralia
- StateSouth Australia
- Brand NameBalnaves
- Wine MakerPete Bissell
- ClosureCork
- Wine SweetnessDry
- Wine BodyFull Bodied
James Halliday
Australian wine writer, critic and winemaker
Vintage 2013
96 points Halliday Wine Companion
From three vineyards, matured for 19 months in French oak from big-name coopers. A serious cabernet showing just what Coonawarra can do in a top vintage; it is intense, complex and packed with cassis/blackcurrant fruit, savoury tannins and positive oak.
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Huon Hooke
Prolific Australian wine reviewer for Fairfax Media and The Real Review
Vintage 2017
95 points The Real Review
Very deep, saturated colour, with a powerful bouquet of concentrated dark and red fruits, gumleaf mint, all backgrounded with deftly-played oak. The palate is very full-bodied and powerful, arresting and firm-tannined. It's very regional; a whopper destined for long ageing and indeed it needs more time. As good a wine as I can recall under this label and very well priced.