2022 Yangarra Shiraz Magnum 1500ml

95 POINTS

Marcus Ellis - Halliday Wine Companion

From six estate blocks, split between ironstone and sand, destemmed with half left as whole berries; élevage in French puncheons, with 25% new and the remainder 1–3-year-old oak. This is remarkably pretty upfront, bursting with red berries and cherries, underneath a bedrock of ferrous minerality – the split of soils writ large – along with baking spices and rosy florals. Trademark Yangarra tannins kick in swiftly and carry the flavours long through a savoury finish. This is charming, but it’s also built for food. Seems like a very fine year for shiraz at this address.

94 POINTS

Cassandra Charlick - Winepilot

Sourced from six blocks – 50% sand, 50% ironstone. 13 months in older oak, destemmed, wild ferment and 50% whole berries. What a colour! It’s like raw pigment before any of the other kids have stuck their brushes in the pot. The nose is elegant yet raw, with a wilderness to it. Bloody, rusty, cured meat and dense with fleshy red cherries and currants. It’s a heady delight. Give it time to grow after opening the bottle. White florals and delicate spice swirl and spin like a whirling dervish. Pepper berries, and chewy echoes of Dutch liquorice. Tannins are fine and al dente, structural yet with that “give” that only a form-fitting design can do when made for the person. Clove, Sichuan pepper, fruity coffee grindings and allspice. This just keeps giving. The gentle tug of acid lifts the roof and weaves the story through the wine. This isn’t a velvet glove, this is finer than velvet. Silk weave with texture. Fine and long yet it doesn’t give its secrets away in one go.

93 POINTS

Ray Jordan - Winepilot

Combines the generosity of Shiraz with a slightly rustic dried herb character that seems a part of the Blewitt Springs DNA. The fruit was carefully massaged through older French oak and foudre to allow its essential characters to emerge without compromise. Bright and lively with a typical energy.

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Ned Goodwin - JamesSuckling.com

An exuberantly floral, full-bodied shiraz, with the inherent elegance of Blewitt Springs, a grand cru in local parlance. Iodine, saddle leather, dried lavender and lilacs, with notes of boysenberry and cream. From biodynamically grown grapes.

92 POINTS

Shanteh Wale - Winepilot

A brooding mix of blackberries, red bean paste and sesame. Caraway seed, pumpernickel bread and kalamata olives. Rosella florals make an appearance too. The palate is bright with an unswing from natural acidity and pillowy tannins that meld into a beautifully rounded plump middle palate. There is significant garrigue herbs and turned earth, a brown mushroom and leaf litter savory quality. This would be a delight alongside cajun prawns and red rice.

Campbell Mattinson - The Wine Front

There’s a bloom of sweet, red berried flavour here but there’s also something severe, almost salty, a bit gamey perhaps. It’s an interesting wine, structural, plumped-enough with fruit flavour, and with florals, but dry and savoury for the most part. It feels finely wrought and crafted, but also – at least at this stage of its life – a bit hard to like. Not sure if I just saw it on a bad day but I couldn’t get excited over this one.