Yangarra Estate

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Yangarra Estate is a Mattinson Ten Star Winery.

Yangarra Estate is a Mattinson 10-Star Winery.
Only the best of Australia’s best wineries are ranked as a Mattinson 10-Star Winery.

Yangarra Estate may or may not be Australia’s best performing winery of the past decade, but certainly no Australian winery has performed better. It has helped revolutionise McLaren Vale grenache, it has taken Rhone whites to new levels, it’s put both single-block shiraz and single-block grenache on a pedestal and it’s been a leader of quality, drink-now, preservative free wines. Yangarra makes good wine at good prices and it also makes the best of the best; sometimes it even combines the two. The narrative of Australian grenache, in particular, has been turned on its head – for the better – over the past 15 or so years and no winery has been more instrumental in this shifting of the dial than McLaren Vale’s Yangarra Estate.

The 2021 and 2023 releases of Yangarra Old Vine Grenache are a great place to start. Winefront reviews here.

Web: Yangarra Estate.

Yangarra Estate is a Mattinson 10-Star Winery.

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Campbell Mattinson is the former Chief Editor of Halliday, and is the founder of The Winefront. He’s authored six books, has won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year award twice, and has been a journalist since 1987. He is also a commercial photographer.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, founder of The Winefront and mattinson, and former chief editor of Halliday.

When you pick up a wine book and see thousands of top-scoring wines, it’s hard to know which wine to choose. Mattinson guides you through this maze, giving you an honest view of the best Australian wines, the best wine stories, the best wine producers, the best value wines and simply, the best tasting wines. Importantly, Mattinson will tell you about the top-rated wines and also about the underrated wines. In short, Mattinson knows Australian wines inside and out.

Mattinson has been a photo-journalist since 1987. For the past 25 years he’s been a voice that you can trust when you’re looking for the best wines. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award, and is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter. He’s not afraid to put a score beside a wine. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

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