Yangarra Estate

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