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| Drinking window: Drink between 2024 and 2041 (based on 24 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 93.6 pts. and median of 94 pts. in 19 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by prasm on 3/11/2024 & rated 94 points: Consumed at winery in Yarra Valley. Appearance: Clear, medium ruby. Nose: Clean, medium+ intensity with developing aromas of black fruit - cassis and blackberry, eucalyptus, herbs, and capsicum. Palate: Dry, medium acid, medium+ tannin is starting to soften and integrate, medium+ body, medium+ intensity, 13.5% abv with developing flavors of black fruit, capsicum, and spice with a long finish. Nearing, but likely a few years from, peak. Can drink now with a short decant, better in 1-2 years and a decade beyond. (688 views) | | | Tasted by chatters on 2/8/2024: Yarra, Mornington, Geelong wine tour day two (Yarra Valley): Tar and red fruit, herbaceous notes, a little tomato leaf and green capsicum, a slight hard green note. Meh nose. Medium plus intensity acidity, red hued fruit, slightly sour green tannins are slightly unripe. Nah. (913 views) | | | Tasted by Gatvol on 1/16/2024 & rated 96 points: Peppery smooth very well balanced. Could have aged for a lot longer but drinking very well now. (1172 views) | | | Tasted by Frijole on 10/13/2023: maroon plum red, medium clarity, ruby
Nose: plum, black cherry, black current, violets, pipe tobacco, leather, vanilla, cinnamon, clove, thyme, oak
Pal: plum, black currents, tobacco, leather, tar, vanilla, dark chocolate, touch cinnamon, clove, thyme, minerals, oak
Feel: medium, full, touch bitter
Finish: long
TC9 (1334 views) | | | Tasted by Hertugen on 8/2/2023: Way too young, but will be great with enough time. (1318 views) | | | Tasted by Blauweiss on 5/12/2023 & rated 92 points: Still a bit young, wait a couple of years, but very promising in it’s deep, dark fruits and lovely chocolate/tobacco composition. (1881 views) | | | Tasted by Gdubya on 2/12/2023 & rated 93 points: No notes taken. Splash decantered and consumed over the next hour or so. Too young now, but could work out well. Packed with fruit and good tannic backbone. Hold 3-5y. 92-94+ (2192 views) | | | Tasted by graemeg on 8/3/2022: NobleRottersSydney - Yarra Yering (Fix, St James, Sydney): {screwcap, 13.5%} CabS, Merlot, Malbec and PV in a 70/18/8/4 ratio. Tobacco, cassis, black olive. Starting to develop a little. Fairly astringent palate with medium chalky tannins. Seems to be a sort of vanilla/camphor note on the palate; yes, there’s black fruit too, but it’s confused and bitty somehow. Needs time, certainly, but it feels like there’s a hard underlying greenness that’s here to stay. Medium body, medium length finish. But not really convincing. (2572 views) | | | Tasted by Darke Peak on 7/22/2022 & rated 95 points: Needs time in the glass. Probably needs another 5-10 years in the bottle. Still a bit closed. Really opened my eyes to the potential of a cool climate Cab Sav blend. (2348 views) | | | Tasted by rrotar on 2/7/2022: Purchased feb 22 $100.00 Costco (2428 views) | | | Tasted by Indran Rajendra on 8/8/2020 & rated 90 points: 2nd bottle tasted in the last 2 weeks.Drunk alongside the Mount Mary Quintet which was more substantial scoring 92 but was also closed. Should improve with time. Estimated drinking window 2027 to 2040. (2995 views) | | | Tasted by Indran Rajendra on 7/30/2020 & rated 90 points: A pale shadow of a true Bordeaux, this wine lacks power and balance. A mauve edge with a relatively pale core revealing a closed nose that opens more over an hour displaying cherries,blackcurrant and hession bag. Feels weak on the palate with some intensity of fruit. Moderate tannin and sometimes intrusive acid. A rather disjointed wine. A half bottle. Drunk at 15 degrees in Riedel Bordeaux glasses. (2344 views) | | | Tasted by MichaelSy on 7/18/2020 & rated 95 points: Wow - for a Bordeaux Blend, this highlights what the cool climate new world is really capable of. A lot of red fruits here. Bright, on its toes, fresh, acid driven, long length and complexity. This wine has it all, and will continue to just fold in and integrate further with more years. A truly remarkable wine that highlights some of Australia's best cabernet! (1971 views) | | | Tasted by beathy on 4/11/2020 & rated 96 points: JH98
A bit more acidic than No2. Less smooth, less complex overall taste but still very enjoyable.
Alex preferred this to No2. Was decanted in 2020 (1866 views) | | | Tasted by pclin on 3/8/2020: ABV 13.5%. Clean floral nose, dry tannins, still too much oaks at such young age. Good length. A$120/b. (1866 views) | | | Tasted by MC2 Wines on 7/2/2019: Return to Aus; 6/23/2019-7/5/2019 (Adelaide, South Australia wine regions, Tassie, Yarra, etc.): Again more of the licorice and anise and all of those flavors. Dark fruits. It's a bit different and surprised me some. I found it elegant though. Nice structure. Built to age. (2265 views) |
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Vinous, Victoria: Cutting Edge Meets Classic (Mar 2024) (3/1/2024)
(Yarra Yering Dry Red Wine No. 1 Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By Jancis Robinson, MW
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(Yarra Yering, Dry Red No 1 Yarra Valley Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By Mike Bennie
The WINEFRONT (6/1/2019)
(Yarra Yering Dry Red Wine No1) Subscribe to see review text. | By James Halliday
Halliday Wine Companion (1/10/2019)
(Yarra Yering Dry Red No. 1) Subscribe to see review text. | By Josh Raynolds
Vinous, South Australia, Victoria and a Bit Beyond (Sep 2022)
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One of the first vineyards to be established in the modern Yarra Valley, Yarra Yering was founded in the early 1970s by Dr Bailey Carrodus. Dr. Carrodus served as winemaker until just prior to his death in September 2008 when he installed Paul Bridgeman.
Yarra Yering supplements the traditional Yarra Valley picks of cool climate pinot noir and chardonnay with an impressive array of red blends. Dr. Carrodus's first vintage (1973) brought forth his now iconic Dry Red #1 and Dry Red #2, a cabernet sauvignon and shiraz blend respectively. Since then, the range has expanded to include a number of red and white blends, as well as a some straight releases (pinot noir, shiraz, chardonnay and viognier).
The wines can vary considerably from vintage to vintage, but drinkers can bank on the releases being complex and very individual interpretations of the fruit and the terroir. Yarra Yering is not a "typical" approach to the Yarra Valley.
Dr. Carrodus's vineyard is second to none (perhaps an exaggeration...) in the Yarra Valley. It has expanded to 70+ acres of North and West facing slopes. It is adjacent to the ex-Halliday owned Coldstream Hills property, just outside of Gruyere.
Sarah Crowe joined Yarra Yering in 2013 after more than a decade in the Hunter Valley. She was lured to Victoria by the winery's impeccable reputation and the desire to produce cool-climate wines. In 2017 Sarah was named Halliday's Winemaker of the Year for the wines of 2014 – her very first vintage with Yarra Yering. Working harmoniously alongside her is Yarra Valley's homegrown vineyard manager Andrew George, who celebrates 10 years with the winery in 2022.
Red Bordeaux BlendRed Bordeaux is generally made from a blend of grapes. Permitted grapes are Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Malbec and rarely Carménère.Today Carménère is rarely used, with Château Clerc Milon, a fifth growth Bordeaux, being one of the few to still retain Carménère vines. As of July 2019, Bordeaux wineries authorized the use of four new red grapes to combat temperature increases in Bordeaux. These newly approved grapes are Marselan, Touriga Nacional, Castets, and Arinarnoa.
Wineries all over the world aspire to making wines in a Bordeaux style. In 1988, a group of American vintners formed The Meritage Association to identify wines made in this way. Although most Meritage wines come from California, there are members of the Meritage Association in 18 states and five other countries, including Argentina, Australia, Canada, Israel, and Mexico.Australia Wine Australia (Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation) | Australian Wines (Wikipedia)Victoria Wines of Victoria (Victorian Wine Industry Association)Yarra Valley Wine Yarra Valley (Yarra Valley Wine Growers Association) |
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