Yarra Yering Dry Red No. 3 2024 6 Pack

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Philip Rich - Halliday Wine Companion

A blend of 46/23/15/7/5/4% touriga nacional/tinta cão/tinta roriz/tinta amarela/alvarelhão/sousão, all sourced from 1990 plantings. A deep, bright purple. Aromas of dark cherry, blackberry and licorice root make for another compelling Dry Red No. 3. Medium bodied; this has lovely intensity through the mid-palate while remaining poised and focused. The tannins are suave and long. You can enjoy this now, with food, but its best is yet to come.

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Campbell Mattinson - The Wine Front

Over a long period of time Yarra Yering Dry Red No. 3 has proven itself to be a masterstroke of both concept and execution. It’s a dry red wine grown on one of the best sites in the Yarra Valley, using an assortment of Portuguese grape varieties. The 2024 season has produced a blend of 46% Touriga Naçional, 23% Tinta Cão, 15% Tinta Roriz, 7% Tinta Amarela, 5% Alvarelhão and 4% Sousão. These are the last grapes harvested on the property each season. No new oak. It’s a wine of delicacy and a wine of difference. It’s also a wine that you want to guzzle, though it has the structure and associated quality markers to make you, also, want to cellar it. It tastes of a variety of berries, ripe and red but not necessarily sweet, with herb, woods, chicory and stem characters littered modestly throughout. It’s also a perfumed wine. And a contemplative one. Indeed, it’s not a wine to smack you in the face; you need to sit and let both you and it unfurl a bit.

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Erin Larkin - Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2024 Dry Red No 3 comprises a blend of 46% Touriga Nacional, 23% Tinta Cão, 15% Tinta Roriz, 7% Tinta Amarela, 5% Alvarelhão and 4% Sousão. Aromatically, the wine leads with a profusion of garden flowers, black olive tapenade, red apple skins, pomegranate and nutmeg, as well as moss and dried herbs. In the mouth, the wine is herbal and vibrant, with layer upon layer of flavor. This is a wine that may be surprising in its freshness and substance in one coupling. 13% alcohol, sealed under screw cap.

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Jeremy Oliver

Intensely perfumed., deeply coloured and fascinating, this delicious, dark-fruited and finely textured dry red delivers bright, juicy flavours of blackberries, dark cherries and blueberries underpinned by a fine, gravelly spine. Its shape and structure are claret-like, but there’s a wildness and briary, almost meaty aspect to its fruit that makes it diverting and interesting.