Yering Station Reserve Pinot Noir 2017

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Yering Station Reserve Pinot Noir 2017.

Yering Station Reserve Pinot Noir 2017
AU$182, 13.3% alcohol, screwcap, Yarra Valley.

Museum release.

This wine is as complex as it is powerful. It’s quite a Pinot Noir. It carries undergrowth, sweet red and black cherry characters, a clear infusion of cedarwood and then complex oystery, almost seaweed-like notes through the finish. The mouthfeel is silken, the tannin a perfectly integrated and formed net across the back half of the wine. The really exciting thing about this wine is the way sweetness and savouriness present as one: harmony is one of many of this wine’s strong points.

95 points – Campbell Mattinson.

Campbell Mattinson

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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