James Halliday's Australian Wine Companion 2009

96 / 100

“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.

The Penguin Good Australian wine guide 2009

96 / 100

“This makes a hat-trick of outstanding consecutive releases: The Tally has really asserted its position at the top tier of Coonawarra cabernets. Cloaked in plenty of new French oak, it’s cedary, regal cabernet, the blackcurrant and dark berry fruits soaks the wood up fast. Terrific density and palate structure, deep and intense, its rolls smoothly from start to finish. Swanky, youthful cabernet at its finest.”

Wine Details

• Region Coonawarra, South Australia
• Vintage 2006
• Type Red Wine
• Variety Cabernet Sauvignon
• Volume 750ml
• Alcohol Volume 14.5%
• PH

  3.50 g/l

• Standard Drinks 8.6
• Acidity

  6.9 g/l

• Closure Cork
• Vintage Notes

  Vintage 2006 was warm, dry and early. Fruit was taken from our Dead Morris vineyard (66%) and Walker vineyards (34%) with 64% receiving a long maceration on skins. Maturation was for 20 months in new fine-grained barrels from Seguin Moreau, Sylvain, Saury and St Martin cooperages, before light egg fining and bottling in March 2008 under Procork.

• Tasting Notes

  Deep rich red in colour, the nose shows fine charry vanillin oak with rich dark berry blackcurrant and blackberry fruit, with a perfumed violet note. The palate is rich and round with black liquorice fruit flavours and a finer tannin structure characteristic of the 2006 vintage. As with all releases of the Tally, it is the harmony and balance of this wine which are its outstanding features. Decant before drinking.