Yering Station Village Pinot Noir 2015
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There's a lot going on in this complex yet approachable Yarra Pinot. It's herbal and medicinal in tangy cranberry and cherry notes, with cumin and a stalky, earthy core. The palate is balanced and finesse. Drink now–2024.
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Blue fruit shows the luscious side of this pinot noir, even as tight tannins lend it definition, and acidity provides strawberry-leaf notes. It’s warm and spicy, for turkey sausages off the grill.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2015 Yering Station Village Pinot Noir drinks smoothly on the palate. TASTING NOTES: This wine exhibits aromas attractive aromas and flavors of savory spices, red berries, and a suggestion of boysenberries. Pair it with a lightly-seasoned, oven-roasted Porchetta. (Tasted: October 20, 2020, San Francisco, CA)
Thin-skinned, finicky and temperamental, Pinot Noir is also one of the most rewarding grapes to grow and remains a labor of love for some of the greatest vignerons in Burgundy. Fairly adaptable but highly reflective of the environment in which it is grown, Pinot Noir prefers a cool climate and requires low yields to achieve high quality. Outside of France, outstanding examples come from in Oregon, California and throughout specific locations in wine-producing world. Somm Secret—André Tchelistcheff, California’s most influential post-Prohibition winemaker decidedly stayed away from the grape, claiming “God made Cabernet. The Devil made Pinot Noir.”
As the most important area of wine production in Victoria today, the Yarra Valley is most popular for Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, which account for over half of vineyard acreage. A gentle, rolling and rural region alongside the Margaret River, the Yarra Valley has a cool maritime climate with a lengthy growing season, perfect for these cool-climate varieties.
Two styles of Pinot Noir are possible here. The warmer Lower Yarra Valley with sandy, loam soils, produces plush and fruity Pinot Noir while the cooler, higher-elevation Upper Yarra Valley with soils of young red basalt, produces more angular and mineral-driven Pinot Noir.
Yarra Valley Chardonnay is among the best in Australia. To preserve the floral aromatics and fresh citrus flavors for which this area’s Chardonnay is so appreciated, time in barrel is restrained (though barrel fermentation is common). The best Yarra Valley Chardonnays display brilliant acidity, leesy characteristics, citrus, stone fruit and flavors of ginger and spice.
Shiraz and Cabernet find success in parts of this region as well.