Balnaves 2001 The Tally PlonkOz04

I was anxious to try this wine as I had already split a six pack with Brian. The sort of wine you can sniff all day; the fruit is pure, it is all class and even from the nose you can tell this will be silky. What you smell is what you get, a perfectly built, full-bodied wine that is underpinned by loads of ultra-fine smooth tannins and pure deeply seated fruit. Sweet raspberry, layered with off-sweet blackcurrant on the mid palate that finishes to chocolate and a little leafy mint is harmonious and sophisticated impression but it will only get better with age. Solid as a rock and very tight, it is a top quality wine that needs ages. Rated as Excellent with *** for value, try again in 2012+. I regret the purchase and sharing the six pack with Brian; I should have kept it all.