Yarra Yering Dry Red No 1 2022

Yarra Yering Dry Red No 1 2022Trophy for Best Cabernet Blend Yarra Valley Wine Show 2023 "I collect this wine each vintage. I believe it's one of the great Cabernet blends in Australia." Erin Larkin Yarra Yering is one of the oldest and most beautiful vineyards in the Yarra Valley, consisting of 28 acres of vines located at the foot of the Warramate Hills. Dr Bailey Carrodus established the winery in 1969 and is credited as one of the driving forces in reviving winemaking in the

The wine spent 16 months in a mix of French oak

A real crowdpleaser

This has some of the toasty notes that were evident on the 2005

Yet a cool region is not immune to hot/drier weather and this already has some forward toasty

The 2019 season could not have been more perfectly suited to ripening the five left-bank Bordeaux varieties which feature in this wine

Fruit for our Eden Valley Riesling is sourced from four vineyards located across the Southern Ranges of Eden Valley from Flaxman Valley in High Eden to the east

Intense earthy

as well as being the mother of two children

First impressions reveal intense aromas of tropical fruit such as pomegranate

What a result once it all came together

not so much from the point of view of flavour as mouthfeel

An internship at a winery in California’s Anderson Valley was followed by stints at wineries in Margaret River in Australia and Cloudy Bay in New Zealand