Description
Within a few years of taking the helm at Yarra Yering, winemaker Sarah Crowe has received one of the wine industry’s highest honours, named “Winemaker of the Year” for 2017 by Australia’s most respected wine writer and critic, James Halliday – “She has done a fabulous job with what was her first full vintage. Just an amazing, amazing job.” Sarah is the first woman to receive this award with two Yarra Yering vintage red wines receiving 99 points and four vintage red wines received 98 out of a possible 100 points.
Yarra Yering is one of the oldest and most beautiful vineyards in the Yarra Valley of Victoria, consisting of 28 hectares of vines located at the foot of the Warramate Hills. Dr Bailey Carrodus established the winery in 1969 and is credited as one of the driving forces in reviving winemaking in this region. The 1973 vintage saw the production of the first vintage of Dry Red Wines – No’s 1 & 2, two of this country’s greatest wines, both featuring in Langton’s classification of Australian wines. Yarra Yering quickly gained an international reputation for quality and individuality and for the next 35 years Dr Carrodus made his wines to great critical and commercial success. The unirrigated vines produce elegant, complex and powerful wines. Approachable in their youth they have the ability to develop in the bottle for many years.
Langtons Fine Wines Classification of Australian Wine “Distinguished”
About the 2019 vintage …A compact year, all fruit ripened relatively quickly and with good yields. The wines are regionally elegant but with a ripe, black fruit spectrum and ample structure. There are no shrinking violets!
Fruit is handpicked, bunch sorted and destemmed directly to the Yarra Yering half-tonne open fermenters. As much whole berry as possible is retained to encourage perfume. Some stalks are added back to some of the fermenters in order to contribute structure and aroma. Selected fermenters have added frozen Viognier skins to the bottom, some have Marsanne skins. The wine is aged for 12 months in French oak barriques, 30% new, before blending and bottling.
A complex and layered wine; sweet and savoury all at once. The fragrance is a melting pot of violets, plums, savoury spices and a whiff of bramble and five spice. Moderate in weight; the summer pudding fruits come in all colours dialling up the flavour interest. There is cigar box and cardamom spice lending intrigue. Firm yet fine tannins ably support the fruit and texture drive the palate. This one is hard to put in a box, there is so much to love.
Accolades:
Langton’s Classified, “Excellent”
98 Points – 2022 Halliday Wine Companion
97 Points – Huon Hooke, The Real Review
97 Points – Tyson Stelzer, WBM (Aust. Wine Business Magazine)
Our Special Price $118.99 – last of this vintage
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