2021 Yarra Yering Dry Red N°1

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 94.3 points

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  3/11/2024 - prasm Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Consumed at winery in Yarra Valley. Appearance: Clear, medium ruby. Nose: Clean, medium+ intensity with aromas of blackberry, cassis, graphite, eucalyptus, and bell pepper. Palate: Dry, medium acid, medium+ tannin feels youthful and grippy, medium+ body, medium+ intensity, 13.5% abv with developing flavors of blackberry, bell pepper, and spice with a medium+ finish. While obviously youthful, this was still delicious, will only improve over the next 5+ years and drink well for a decade+ beyond - wonderful wine.

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  2/29/2024 - jmcmchi Likes this wine:

  Classical bramble fruit mingled with cigarbox and cedar leading into an explosion of flavours on the palate.
  Initially, almost sweet fruit, tempered by stemmy notes and firm supple tannins. Tannins and dark fruit persist for a long, long time
  
  13.5% abv

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  2/8/2024 - chatters wrote:

  Yarra, Mornington, Geelong wine tour day two (Yarra Valley): Mint, eucalyptus, wild blackcurrant, sweet spice, a little red plum, almost pencil shavings. Tangy, juicy, medium plus intensity acidity, plentiful chewy tannins, fruit presents similar flavour profile. Like most of these wines at Yarra Yering this persists ridiculously long.

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  10/11/2023 - LindsayM Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Bordeaux blend Varietals: Cabernet Sauvignon 60% Merlot 24% Malbec 11% Petit Verdot 5%
  
  colour bright red purple hues pink to clear on the rim 15/15
  Nose beautiful perfumed florals and black and red fruits , oak spice cedar smoke charcuterie black olive red liquorice balanced layering of aromas 29/30
  Palate med bodied rich plush fruits from the nose plums blackberries spice tannin grip from the cabernet , iodine, good acid line throughout the palate , excellent long silky finish 20+ seconds 41/44
  Overall very young and has all the elements freshness, texture , balance and building complexity 10/11

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  4/27/2023 - Rote Kappelle Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Yarra Yering has its critics and I think a case can be made that it is not the most complex wine in terms of flavours, but what I find is that I love the plush fruit that somehow holds this line of tension to stop it from being baggy and then there is the texture and architecture in the mouth.
  
  As always, the balance is impeccable. This is slinky and the tannins are so fine, meshed in and subtle that you have to remind yourself that these wines age magnificently and for decades. The 1991 I had recently, under cork, was certainly a mature wine but not a fully mature one and at 32 years of age I think it might have another 5-10 years left.
  
  Some spiciness, a touch of cedar and smoke, plum and cassis. Great length and drive. I also get a hint of the smell of clay/wet stone, which always adds something positive for me.
  
  Unlike my other experiences recently with 2022 wines, no sourness issues.

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