2022 Yarra Yering Dry White N°1

Community Tasting Notes (1) Avg Score: 94 points

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  5/3/2024 - Rote Kappelle Likes this wine: 94 Points

  This is actually a Chardonnay-Smelly One blend (you may call it Semillon, but I know better). It is always one of the YY's I most look forward to each vintage; not because it is one of their best but because it gives me great pleasure.
  
  As usual, this wine shows a light, bright, white gold and the nose and palate deliver a taught, elegant wine driven by ripe lemon, pear, citrus blossom and a very slight note of grassiness that never falls into weediness or throws the balance out. This vintage also shows flintiness, which does pop up in some other vintages, but here it is added to a chalky minerality that is quite arresting. This is a wine that improves immeasurably with time open - it is more muted on day 1 and opens up on days 2-3.
  
  Length and intensity can't be faulted and I have scored this at the low end of 'Outstanding'. I have hesitated doing this, out of fear that subjective pleasure has overcome critical faculties. As such I note that Huon Hooke, a very fine Oz wine writer scored this at 89, whilst noting that he thought that time would work in its favour. So, there you have it. I had more time, I suspect, with the wine than did Huon, but he has by far the better palate.

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