Yeringberg

Shiraz

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  Vintage 2015
  96 points

Excellent dark purple hue, thanks to a splash of viognier. It's a glorious, perfectly pitched cool climate Shiraz with a lot packed into it, yet retains an elegance on its medium-bodied palate. Heady aromas of dark and red fruits, black pepper, some pine needles/garrigue notes and a fleck of charry-wood spices from the otherwise integrated oak. There's a suppleness, juiciness on the palate, and a savoury note that tempers the fruit, the tannins fine and detailed with the acidity, like a refreshing squirt of raspberry juice.

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  Vintage 2014
  96 points www.winecompanion.com.au

Includes 2% marsanne and 1% viognier, 9% whole bunches, 9-12 days on skins, matured for 18 months in French oak (28% new). Bright crimson-purple; a superbly crafted wine with infinite attention to detail. Red and black cherry, with a faint touch of raspberry, balanced by a hint of bramble, make the task of deconstructing the palate nigh on impossible, simply because there will be so many different readings of its message - but with one exception: its undeniable quality.