2003 Yarra Yering Dry Red N°2

Community Tasting Notes (21) Avg Score: 92.5 points

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  11/10/2023 - Bonesetter Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Poured clear. Light crust in the bottle. Medium brick red colour, slight browning at the rim. None of the apricot jam aroma that spoils a lot of shiraz/viognier wines for me, just blackberry and blackcurrant fruit. Medium bodied, blackberry and jubes on the palate.

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  5/12/2016 - andtheodor wrote:

  Oof, all smelly gym socks and nasty overripe fruit at first, even a bit of prickly refermentation to complete the mess. Thankfully, a bit of air resolves most of this and reveals some cocoa powder, tobacco, iodine and very sweet nearly honeyed strawberry fruit. A puzzler, with some clear flaws, but lots of stuffing too. Very poor QPR.

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  8/1/2015 - mclanew Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Drinking beautifully with still a lot of life ahead. Full bodied flavors of red fruits, kirsch, earth and spices. Thick and unctuous with a long finish. A little jammy.

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  4/11/2013 - Christoffer78 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  A wonderful offering from a somewhat forgotten producer. The nose of the 2003 N°2 offers up beautiful minerals, wet clay and granite paired with an extreme amount of led pencil. The red fruit component is a bit light footed, but this adds to the elegant side of this wine. The texture and integration is striking with a beautiful acidity. As the "dot over the i", the length on the finish is superb. This wine is at its peak and there is no reason to refrain from drinking.
  
  (Served in a flight with 2003 Philip Togni Cabernet Sauvignon, 2003 Blankiet Paradise Hill and 2003 Colgin IX Estate)

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  1/16/2013 - guitarguy Does not like this wine: 80 Points

  This wine has disappointed from the first bottle and I had great hopes after a reco by Mike Baker at WDC in Chicago. This was, thankfully, the final bottle. All bretty and high volatile acidy on opening, it really sucked night one. My wife plain would not drink it and I had just a glass that night. By night two, the brett had somewhat "receded" or perhaps come into balance with a few other elements in the wine, at least a small bit. Stinky, barnyard nose never really receded. The flavors started with an all too well known barnyard, sweaty saddle, a bit of pruny menthol behind it. That was it. If you like brett, this may be for you but I call Brett a serious flaw and I've talked to a few professional winemakers who agree. An example of the some of the worst notes I often find in SoFra syrahs. The only good thing I can say about this seriously flawed POS is that it does not have the overripe, baked fruit so prevalent in other Aussies Shiraz's of the era. While that is good, the failure of the wine elsewhere puts it near or at the top of my lowest QPR's of all time. As bad as the '99 d'Armailhac, but I paid a lot less per bottle for that POS. Yarra Yerring is on my list of never buys.

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