2024 Yangarra Old Vine Grenache

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Ryan Montgomery - JamesSuckling.com

Remarkable purity and perfume with a fruit-driven, savory and herbal edge. Aromas of red and black berries, pomegranate, red licorice, citrus peel and earth. The textural, rounded palate shows firmly framed yet silken tannins and generous fruit that bring the wine together beautifully. An excellent release. Outstanding value. Made from dry-grown vines planted in 1946.

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Marcus Ellis - Halliday Wine Companion

From the estate’s 13-odd hectares of 1946-planted dry-grown bush vines. It’s a precious resource and is treated as such. The making is quiet: half crushed, half whole berries, gentle pump-overs, some long maceration to detail tannins, then old foudre, puncheons, ceramic eggs and amphorae. There’s a more generous feel to this release, with the year a tad warmer. Wild raspberry, ripe Bing cherry, warm terracotta, fading roses, fennel seeds and caraway. It’s a wine of intensity and grace, with the old vines yielding a silky charm to the feel and flavour intensity, with a finish of considerable verve and stylishly etched tannins. The last three releases are all so different, and all of the highest order.

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Gary Walsh - The Wine Front

This is 1946 plantings Grenache. Raspberry frogs, cherry, almond paste, spice and dried flowers, a subtle volatile lift adds a little frisson to it. Ripe red fruits, nutty and rich, fine silty tannin, dried cranberry, lots of perfume and character, with a fleshy finish of excellent length. Lovely wine. Perhaps a little slushy, but very nice all the same.

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Tom Kline - Winepilot

This comes from 13.3 hectares of un-irrigated bush vines planted in 1946 and was matured in an eclectic mix of old Austrian and French oak foudre and puncheons, ceramic egg, and amphora. There’s a mineral and linear feel straight off – Bing cherry, warm sand and white pepper spice make way for wild raspberry, cranberry and crushed strawberry. There’s a nutty nuance and some pressed-flower lift with air. The palate has lovely buoyancy and brightness while still retaining ample, suave texture. Raspberry and warm sand again, cranberry, crushed violet and macerated strawberry. The tannins are super fine with both crunchiness and an assertive frame that carries to good length. There’s lightness of touch but loads of interest and complexity – modern McLaren Vale Grenache to a tee.