Balnaves The Tally Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon
- Red
- Australia
- Coonawarra
- Cabernet Sauvignon
- Tracked vintages
- 13
- Community notes
- 89
- Merchant offers
- 19
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 97/ 1002008 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 86/ 10089 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £36per 75 cl2008 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2017
- Drinking window
- UnknownNot recorded on any vintage we track
Flavour and structure
What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.
Structure from 118 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Australian Cabernet Sauvignon.
- Body4.0 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.3 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin3.5 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.6 / 5
- DrySweet
- Black fruit · cassis, blackberry, blackcurrant, black fruit, plum
- Oak · oak, cedar, vanilla, chocolate, tobacco
- Spice · mint, licorice, eucalyptus, menthol, pepper
- Earth · leather, earthy, tar, minerals, mushroom
- Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, red cherry, strawberry, cranberry
- Dried fruit · prune, raisin, dried apricot, dried fruit
Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
2001One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2008
Vintages
Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.
- 2022unit not stated
- 2021unit not stated
- 2019unit not stated
- 201884drinkersunit not stated
- 201688drinkersunit not stated
- 201090drinkersunit not stated
- 200990drinkersunit not stated
- 200897critic£36 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2017
- 200797critic£30 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, January 2017
- 200696critic£38 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2017
- 200596critic£38 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2026
- 200494critic£47 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2023
- 200196critic£41 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2023
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2008
- 97 / 100 from a critic
- Lowest price
- 2007
- £30 per 75 cl
Price by vintage
One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.
Solid: a realised in-bond trade
View as a table
| Vintage | Price / 75cl | Critic score | In drink window | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | £36 | 97 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2017 |
| 2007 | £30 | 97 | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, January 2017 |
| 2006 | £38 | 96 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2017 |
| 2005 | £38 | 96 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2026 |
| 2004 | £47 | 94.3 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2023 |
| 2001 | £41 | 95.5 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2023 |
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