Yangarra GSM 2024 6 Pack

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Tom Kline - Winepilot

The cépage is 67% Grenache, 17% Shiraz and 16% Mourvèdre, with each variety handled separately and with its own unique maceration. However, the common thread is a very gentle pump-over regime – often just wetting the cap – for a minimum of 14 days. This delicate approach plays out nicely in the finished wine. A very elegant nose to start. Dark cherry, pepper spice, raspberry and plum sit restrained in the glass as some emergent notes of game meat, crushed violet and dried herbs take shape in the background. Some time in the glass really allows the savoury elements to shine around the fruit. The palate is cool and restrained with nice precision to the fruit notes, which mirror the nose – plum, dark cherry – and some delicate pepper, musk, violet and dried-herb notes beneath. The tannins are silty and fine, providing a delicate-but-ample frame on which good length carries. I like the finesse and digestibility here – it’s McLaren Vale GSM in a well-placed modern style, exhibiting all the hallmarks of the blend and place but in a more lithesome aesthetic. Good value on show here at $35 retail.

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Marcus Ellis - Halliday Wine Companion

A blend of 67/17/16% grenache/shiraz/mourvèdre; separate ferments, with extended maceration for some grenache parcels, raised in old puncheons, foudre, ceramic eggs and amphorae. More grenache this year, and a little more heft. That word is inapt, of course, as this is bright-fruited, lithe and energetic, yet there’s a darker red tone to the grenache component. Darkly ripe raspberry, red plums, tart blackberry, black cherry, subdued ferrous notes, white pepper, mace and allspice. Tannins are uber fine, the profile open and engaging, the minor blending components providing a savoury bolster to the finish.

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Gary Walsh - The Wine Front

43/34/23% Grenache/Shiraz/Mourvèdre. Curiously, I don’t think I’ve tasted a Yangarra GSM since the 2012 vintage! Dark cherry, raspberry, a bit of a veal stock thing here, but also a fair bit of rosy fragrance. It’s medium-bodied, supple and flavoursome, plump mixed berries, spice, stock and a musky sort of rosewater mouth-perfume, soft but balanced acidity, with a nutty and grainy finish of good length. I know we should not say these things, but gee it’s a lot like a good Côtes du Rhône! It’s delicious.