2009 Yarra Yering Dry Red N°2

Community Tasting Notes (16) Avg Score: 93.7 points

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  7/12/2023 - CDT Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Tasted after a 45 minute decant. Dark ruby in colour with a hint of garnet.
  Aromas of earthy forest floor & sweet black fruit, transitioning quickly to lovely aromas of leather, black liquorice & chocolate. On the palate, full bodied slightly tart & juicy black fruit, cassis/blackberry/boysenberry, chocolate, leather, sweet tobacco, somewhat savoury, high acidity, medium soft tannins with a long finish to black pepper, black liquorice & chalky minerality.
  This wine is 14 years old but still tastes fresh & amazing. Does anything age better than Aussie Shiraz?

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  4/23/2023 - CDT Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Purchased as a Yarra Yering Museum Release in 2020 by friends in Perth.
  All the bottles survived a luggage ride to Canada, and this the first opening tastes wonderful!
  Tasted after a 60 minute decant. Lovely, but somewhat subdued aromas of stewed fruit, chocolate/caramel & leather. Colour is medium ruby with a distinct garnet rim.
  On the palate, medium to full bodied juicy/tart black fruit, blackberry/boysenberry, chocolate/caramel, leather, savoury, earthy, herbal (Eucalyptus?), medium acidity, medium soft tannins with a long finish to spice/pepper & a chalky minerality.
  This is beautiful wine : complex & still lively after 14 years. Other than bottle variation, this wine still has several more years of life!

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  9/10/2022 - tanduybui Likes this wine: 93 Points

  A shiraz / viogner blend and it is an elegant and seamless wine. A wink to Northern Rhone and a nod to cool climate shiraz.
  
  A spice, slightly peppery and performed nose, laced with hints of berries, plums and fine oak. Body was silky thanks to the viogner but grew bigger as the Shiraz comes out to play. Freshness from the shiraz that held the wine together. Fine tannin and lovely smooth finish that lingers longer than an unwanted relative.
  
  A fine wine and drink now to 5+ years

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  5/28/2022 - Rote Kappelle Likes this wine: 94 Points

  I amble to the lectern to deliver this note, hoping that my blood alcohol level won't register too directly on the audience. Staring myopically at the jumble of paper before me, I am rescued by a sotto voce message from my trusted assistant at stage left "Your note is under the porno, next to the Magpie, sir." By Jove, so it is.
  
  "Tonight's thingy is on this Yarra Yering chap, out of the colonies." My eye drifts to the fleshy portions before me and I start to lose myself. I am brought back to topic by the frantic whisperings of my assistant and the beady gaze of the unimpressed Magpie. Magpies are a most Calvinist bird, very focused on the task at hand and inflicting bodily harm on those who transgress.
  
  "Right, Yarra Yering 2009 Number 2." Apparently toilet humour was not front and centre for those who named this wine.
  
  "It was a hot vintage and a brutal bushfire year. Victorians (many of whom resemble humans, despite their predilection for a ridiculous version of football) will remember the year well. The depth of colour in this wine is not unusual but the inky aspect is. This promises power."
  
  I start to reel off statistics before realising that these are bust and hip measurements (I don't care much about waist) from the gentlemen's publication. "Moving on, we come to the nose. This is hovering between dark plum and prune, with a jube aspect; there's a line of earthy, almost smoky naughtiness and a hint of Viognier lift and some pepper. Good things."
  
  "What would Biggles make of this", I wonder as I taste the wine. "Well, clearly Eric von Stalhein wasn't able to make mischief, because this is a wizard brew in the mouth. There is the patent YY smooth, supple mouthfeel, great length and intensity and that jube element is quite enticing. I understand the reviewer who felt this was a bit on the prune side of things, but I think they had been misled by Soviet intelligence. Prune is there but it lacks the flat, baked element of prune dominant wines. There is still some fresh acid carrying this wine.
  
  Algy, now standing naked, in the glow of the instrument panel in the cockpit interrupts to say "I could ride this to Baghdad, like a well stuffed Chelsea whore" True it is.
  
  Quite a jolly wine, good to drink now, no point cellaring further, tannins are fully resolved and it is a sensual beast. Drink it, guzzle it, rub it in places you don't talk about, share it only with those you must and most of all, fall under its spell.
  
  Note made about 5 hours after opening, no decant, under the naughty cork (so expect lots of bottle variation). It is a Shiraz-Viognier blend, a wonderful institution and well worth hunting down. Drink with beef, or other sensual fare. It can only be considered outstanding (on the Ct scale).

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  4/13/2021 - chatters wrote:

  Leather, baked earth, slight dried our almost pruney fruit with touches of dried herbs, raisins, charcuterie, chocolate. Quite raisined and volatile on the palate, plenty of alcohol, polished oak lends cedar, caramel, lashings of chalky drying tannins closes things down a bit, bit of a beast in this line up...not for me.

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