2022 Yangarra Ovitelli Rouge
The Collective Review
How do you make for even more perfume and structure in an old vine Grenache?
Use eggs. To be more specific, Ceramic eggs with this sublime Yangarra Ovitelli Grenache fermented and matured in 675L ceramic eggs instead of more traditional barrels and tanks.
Ovitelli feels different to your usual Grenache too. Of course, the hero is the 75yr old, biodynamically farmed vines that provide the concentrated fruit to start with. Yet this wine has a unique shape to it, with the 133 days on skins imbuing this wine with some of the most astonishing tannins you’ll see in a Grenache anywhere on the planet.
Finally, the other element that is so remarkable here is the Couple that singing raspberry perfume, which is again distinctive and so alluring. What an experience.
The concrete and the clay beneath my feet, begins to crumble, but love will never die. Gee, you can really smell and taste the maturation vessel in this wine, which I like, because it appeals to my love of Italian wines and their tannic structure. Red fruit, dried flowers (including chamomile), aniseed and mint, tamarind, almond meal and fresh rhubarb, cranberry flavour and acidity. It’s medium-bodied, dry and very firm, but does have bright red fruit of some succulence in with all that dusty terracotta stuff. The finish is long and kind of bony, but it does carry perfume as it closes. This may be a little too much for some. but I love it. Such a fine and distinctive wine. Read more
Critic Reviews
The concrete and the clay beneath my feet, begins to crumble, but love will never die. Gee, you can really smell and taste the maturation vessel in this wine, which I like, because it appeals to my love of Italian wines and their tannic structure. Red fruit, dried flowers (including chamomile), aniseed and mint, tamarind, almond meal and fresh rhubarb, cranberry flavour and acidity. It’s medium-bodied, dry and very firm, but does have bright red fruit of some succulence in with all that dusty terracotta stuff. The finish is long and kind of bony, but it does carry perfume as it closes. This may be a little too much for some. but I love it. Such a fine and distinctive wine.
From 1946-planted vines in Block 30, adjacent to the High Sands Block; destemmed, crushed and fermented in 675L ceramic eggs; pressed after about 150 days then returned to the eggs for a total of 14 months' maturation. Taut and sinewy, both a function of making and the year that was, this is a coiled spring of dried flowers, cranberry, raspberry leaf tea, cherry, pomegranate and dusty white pepper spicing. The pedigree of place, venerable vines, impeccable viticultural stewardship and fine-tuned making suggest this will have a long and exciting future, but it needs a few years to unlock all its mysteries. As it stands, it is a thrilling bottle, if a little stern at present. I have a feeling the score may tick up with time.
Vibrant ruby and bright purple tones shine in the glass. Raspberry, dried clay and anise spice aromatics. Palate sings with red fruits, Turkish Delight and a mélange of North African spices. Tannins are fine and sandy but have great persistence and power so the whole palate is carried to a prodigiously long finish. There’s so much to discover here that you’ll want to sit in quiet introspection when drinking it
Technical Attributes
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Producer: Yangarra Estate
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Varietal: Grenache
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Region: McLaren Vale
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Net volume: 750ml
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Vintage: 2022
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Style GuideLight Intense
Producer: Yangarra Estate
Varietal: Grenache
Region: McLaren Vale
Net volume: 750ml
Vintage: 2022
Tasting Notes
Ovitelli is the most perfumed and elegant Grenache from the sands at Yangarra. Sourced from a single block, the vibrant fruit of those dry grown 1946 bush vines is rewarded with a long, luxurious ferment and a whole autumn on skins in big ceramic eggs. Fresh raspberry, red cherries, blue flowers and rose petals dusted with spice. Ultra-fine sandy tannins.
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