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Balgownie Estate Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 1999
Jeremy’s score 89/100Big modern ripe and oaky, its spicy mocha and cedar/vanilla oak rather overshadows its intense cassis, plum and prune fruit qualities. It’s otherwise sound, with slightly hard-edged tannins and a lingering saltiness.
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Balgownie Estate Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2000
Jeremy’s score 90/100Rather more ripe than I’d really prefer, but a firm, strong Bendigo cabernet with undoubted cellaring quality. Porty, jammy aromas of lightly cooked dark fruits, fresh cassis and plums, licorice, dark olives and animal hide precede a heavily extracted palate of strength and substance. Its ripe fruits give lift to its earthy, meaty and gamey qualities.
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Balgownie Estate Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2002
Jeremy’s score 93/100Very firm, structured cabernet of refinement and balance. Its earthy fragrance of violets and rose petals, cassis, plums and blackberries overlies tightly integrated cedar/chocolate/vanilla oak and scents of dried herbs. Robust and linear, it delivers piercing, penetrative flavours of dark berries and plums over astringent, bony tannins. Wait for it.
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Balgownie Estate Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2003
Jeremy’s score 93/100Firm and structured, this long-term central Victorian red has a minty perfume of violets and cassis over smoky undertones of cedar/vanilla oak and a whiff of menthol. Earthy and leathery, its minty dark plum and berry flavours are framed by a bony spine of drying tannins. Pleasing length and brightness.
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Balgownie Estate Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2004
Jeremy’s score 93/100A traditional Bendigo cabernet of tremendous depth, ripeness and regional intensity. Scented with spicy, menthol-like aromas of cassis, dark plums and sweet oak, it reveals floral, violet-like undertones. Firm and fine-grained, its profound expression of ripe, slightly jammy red and black berry/plum fruit is framed by firm, fine tannins and finishes with minty suggestions of eucalypt. Modestly alcoholic, given its richness and ripeness.
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Balgownie Estate Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2005
Jeremy’s score 94/100A fine piece of winemaking has developed a powerful, assertive but carefully balanced red for the long haul. Scented with cassis, violets, plums and well-knit cedar/vanilla oak, its sumptuous palate is coated with a drying, chalky astringency. There’s just a hint of currant and meatiness beneath its richly ripened dark berry and plum-like fruit, while its substantial oak treatment is simply soaked up.
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Balgownie Estate Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2006
Jeremy’s score 89/100Firm and fine-grained, this marginally overcooked and rather meaty cabernet is surprisingly elegant and supple. Its leathery fragrance of berries, plums and earthy undertones precede a long, slightly raisined palate whose fruit and oak are carefully knit with tight, powdery and astringent tannins.
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Balgownie Estate Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2008
Jeremy’s score 94/100 -
Balgownie Estate Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2009
Jeremy’s score 96/100 -
Balgownie Estate Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2010
Jeremy’s score 95/100 -
Balgownie Estate Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2012
Jeremy’s score 95/100 -
Balgownie Estate Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2013
Jeremy’s score 94/100Marrying elegance with structure, this finely balanced cabernet has a dusty, faintly floral but still quite closed fragrance of small red and black berries, polished cedary oak, dried herbs and baked earth. Underpinned by a tightly integrated spine of powdery, drying tannins, its plush and deeply flavoured palate of small berries, dark plums and chocolatey oak culminates in an earthy, faintly meaty and savoury finish, leaving lingering notes of mint and menthol.
