2012 Yarra Yering Dry Red N°2

Community Tasting Notes (20) Avg Score: 93.5 points

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  3/11/2024 - prasm Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Consumed at winery in Yarra Valley. Appearance: Clear, medium ruby with slight hints of edge bricking. Nose: Clean, medium+ intensity with developing aromas of violets, blackberry, blueberry, bramble, and spice. Palate: Dry, medium acid, medium tannin is soft and integrated, medium+ body, medium+ intensity, 13.5% abv with flavors of dark fruit, spice, and bramble with a medium+ finish. Drinking wonderfully today - can drink now or over next 2-4 years.

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  3/11/2024 - prasm wrote: 89 Points

  Tasted at winery in Yarra Valley. Appearance: Clear, medium garnet with brown edges. Nose: Clean, medium intensity with developed aromas of leather, cigar box, stewed plums, and cardamom. Palate: Dry, medium- acid, medium tannin, medium+ body, 13.0% abv with developed flavors of stewed plum, tobacco, and leather with a medium finish - at, or just past, peak - drink now.

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  8/26/2023 - Genghis88 wrote: 94 Points

  Checking in on this vintage after a three year hiatus.
  Some nice ageing happening here. Base notes are still the same, but I;m getting more tar, and jam notes now. Lots of strawberry preserve.
  This wine is absolutely delicious. I score it 94 pts last time, and I will maintain that score. No need to wait. Drink up or hold.

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  8/20/2022 - Vini Ciclismo Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Vintage 2012 Tasting: med weight colour
  soft clean nose
  plump ripe fruits, red berry dominates, some fine tar spice adds complexity, fine furry tannins, on the softer side but drinks nicely

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  11/27/2021 - Seth Rosenberg Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Opened last night and this was completely dumb - and really weird. I put the cork back in and now, 18 hours later, we are starting to get something. From a Conterno Sensory. This shows red and slightly blue fruit - but as close to actual jam/preserves as I've ever smelled in a wine - strawberry or cherry preserves. Some varnish and volatility I think. There's some sort of herbal savory thing - garrigue or something like that. The palate is similar - it has the jam flavors but also combnined with a savory almost meaty aspect. It's kind of like a bite of fatty duck breast with a red fruit compote all in one. Curious to see how this develops with more air.
  
  t= +26 hours: opening well and not dumb at all. The nose shows strawberries and cherries, sour cherry, strawberry compote, marzipan, spices, garrigue, a bit of blood/guts. It's lovely and quite it's own thing - would have no idea if blinded, and probably would guess Musar. Not a big or modern wine in any way. Palate of very pure strawberry and cherry and sour cherry -red and tart and savory, herbs and garrigue. Almost light on the palate - high acid and tart. Finish is tart red fruit and garrigue. This is very iconoclastic and quirky IMO. I like it. Given the feel and the acid I think this needs another 10-15 years and could open up really well but I'm not on sure footing with that. Nose - 5-5.5/6, Palate - 5+?/6, Finish - 5+?/6, Je ne Sais Quoi - 1+?/2 = 16-16.5+?/20 (with 16-17.5/20 potential.)

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