2021 Balgownie Estate Bendigo Cabernet Sauvignon

Refined and medium bodied with a gentle chalky feel to the long, elegant finish.

Midnight black in colour with a dark red hue. Lifted blackcurrant and choc mint aromas are interwoven with vanillin cedar, tobacco, dried herb and spicy earth notes. Refined and medium bodied, the palate features rich blackcurrant and mulberry fruits over a dusty earth, vanillin cedar, tobacco and spicy dried herb back drop. Slightly dryish fine grained tannins with a gentle chalky feel to the long, elegant finish.
Drink over the next 5-6 years.
Alc. 13.6%

Other Reviews…..
Open vat fermentation, 21 days on skins, aged in French oak (20% new) for 18 months. Hand-picked from the '69 and '70 blocks and offering a real taste of Victorian wine history. With some swishes of air it opens up a treat, highlighting impressive fruit concentration and deep flavour replete in black fruits, plum, cassis, bay leaf, acacia and dark chocolate, with a gentle leafy complexity. Even tannins and plenty of length. Drink by 2031.
94 Points
Jeni Port – James Halliday’s Australian Wine Companion