Community Tasting Notes 16

• Cmca1 wrote: 92 points

  April 21, 2024 - Deep burgundy. Really well perfumed with wild strawberry and herbaceous elements. The palate is so rich with cherry, backed up by the strawberry and crunchy, savoury notes suggestive of whole bunch fermentation and aniseed. This is so refined and elegant.
  
  My wife actually nearly called this old world, but the brightness of fruit gave it away. Bargain wine, but 99 points it’s not (unless scoring relative to price, maybe?)

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• kostaslonis wrote:

  January 30, 2024 - Australia Trade Tasting (Lindley Hall, Royal Horticultural Halls): floral notes, ripe red fruit, black fruit, palte with wamth (14.50%), same flavor in palate, juicy tannins, med body

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• colinscellar Likes this wine: 94 points

  January 22, 2024 - Beautiful wine in the glass with its intense ruby colour. Big nose with that textbook redskin lolly smell. I always associate that with Gamay and carbonic maceration, but this wine was open fermented, which I think precludes CM unless it happens inside the grapes before pressing? Anyone with a better understanding on this I'd be happy to be educated in the comments.
  Good balance of tartness and ripeness with red cherry, raspberry and pomegranate flavours. Subtle hints of warm spice but it's very fruit-driven right now. Bright and fresh acidity and chalky tannic grip make this a real pleasure to drink. I enjoyed it well enough last time but tonight's bottle really impressed me at a higher level.

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• StewartWent wrote: 89 points

  November 6, 2023 - Another JH J***z fest at 99pts. Each to their own I guess. It's very good actually but I've had better from 2021 from MV. Fruit forward, almost sweet, but plenty of quality and class. The sheer weight of pure fruit walks over the structural elements and for me I can't see the savoury tannin notes others have picked up on. Very yound and will nearly certainly get a lot better.

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• DrinkerTrev Likes this wine: 92 points

  October 19, 2023 - Trying another bottle. This time a 375ml half bottle. Special price direct from the winery. Bought a case of the half bottles. (12). Starting to really like Grenache!

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2021
• Type Red
• Producer Yangarra Estate
• Varietal Grenache
• Designation Old Vine Grenache
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Australia
• Region South Australia
• SubRegion Fleurieu
• Appellation McLaren Vale

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• In Cellars 997 (83%)
• Consumed 202 (17%)

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