2009 Tahbilk Cabernet Sauvignon

Community Tasting Notes (16) Avg Score: 89.3 points

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  8/25/2023 - StewartWent wrote: 91 Points

  Hmmmmm.....$19 and released as a 14yr old! Let that sink in. Classically structured in the best possible way. Wonderfully poised tannin and dry red fruits. If you'd told me classified BDX I would have agreed (albeit modest 5th). Love it.

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  3/18/2022 - Inny Likes this wine: 89 Points

  2022 - Dark ruby,, slight brown tinge. Very difficult to get the nose to open up. Chalky
  Dark earthy fruits, cassis, charry oak
  Solid wine.

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  12/28/2020 - StewartWent wrote: 91 Points

  Really really impressive. Balanced, smooth but still serious. Dark berry fruits with just a hint of bitterness before a blackberry finish. Tannins present but nicely positioned in the background with soft fur. Has 3 to 5 years ahead of it. Remains my favourite Australian winery.

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  8/12/2020 - TJJO Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Medium-dark ruby with some garnet, pale rim, some initial slight browning signs of development. Lovely bouquet of liquor cherries, musk, just-ripe blackberry and cassis, slight spice. Palate consistent, lovely fruit-driven characters, still juicy but with initial secondary savoury characters proving complexity, fine tannins proving slight pleasant grip. Medium finish, medium alcohol (turns out to be 13.5%). Delicious, perfect drinking now and for next few years. 94/100.

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  3/5/2017 - penguinoid Likes this wine:

  Colour: dark cherry red, hint of brick
  Nose: lots of dark fruit -- black cherry, plum, cassis. Blackberry jam. Liquorice, tar, aniseed? Juniper berries? V.slight hint of nightshade leaf. Earthy.
  Palate: plum, blackberry, cassis, perhaps plum. Juniper berry? Liquorice, touch of medicinal character, tar. old French oak. Classic Cabernet Sauvignon. Medium bodied, smooth, fine grained drying tannins, berry-like acidity. Really lovely, complex, long on the palate. Still seems quite young! 13,5% alcohol.

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