2010 Yarra Yering Dry Red N°1

Community Tasting Notes (23) Avg Score: 91.9 points

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  5/10/2024 - Brucie69 Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Decanted for 4 hours and drank from the 1st hour.
  
  Nose: Strong vanilla notes with plums, blackcurrent and violets. With time in the decanter leather and earth also appeared together with red fruits and a high toned acetate elements.
  
  Palate. On first taste the oak somewhat overwhelmed the fruit. But the fruit quality was really high with an initial wave of black fruits followed by crisper red fruits as the ample acidity.
  After 4 hours the vanilla had toned down and the fruits mellowed into more of the red fruit spectrum together with more tertiary leather and earth overtones. At the 3-4 hour mark while the complexity grew the fruit quality became slightly muddied.
  
  A really nice wine that I think I caught at the wrong times. I had the first couple of glasses at the one hour mark and the fruit quality was high but the oak was a little too prominent. By the four hour mark the complexity was there but the fruit definition was slightly lacking.
  
  I’d drinking now based on this bottle I would decant for a couple of hours.

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  4/24/2024 - tanduybui Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Excellent after a long decant.
  
  Very light weight upon opening and ruby red. Once in full stride, dark berry, cassis, some cigar and mineral tones. Lovely body that is supple and powerful at the same time. Black currant, cherry and some brightness for contrast. A long spicy finish. Fine tannin and very smooth.
  
  Drink now to 6+ years.

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  4/5/2024 - CaptainBert Likes this wine:

  1hr Decant
  
  N: Tobacco, Leather, Red Currant and Raspberry. Slight floral element as well
  
  P: Red Currant and Raspberry with lots of dark wet earthy elements. Touch of spice on the finish.
  
  Mild acitiy and very rich.

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  1/27/2024 - winelibertine Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Wow, quite an eye opener for me who generally eschews New World wines. A brilliant come-hither nose, deep ruby with some signs of age On the palate, deep pure cassis, blackberry, tomato leaf, rich and beautiful. Excellent acid balance, silky texture, juicy, harmonious, well integrated tannins. Opened beautifully in the glass! Has some time to go still I reckon.

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  8/3/2023 - paganpeter83 wrote: 92 Points

  A very good wine. Rich red fruits with the expected spine of tannins framed with oak. Perhaps suffered a bit due to high expectations and probably drunk just before it really enters it’s intended drinking window.

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