Kevin Glastonbury oversees the production of some of my favourite wines out of Yalumba's rather significant portfolio, including this cracker from the Single Vineyard series. He seems a cracking bloke too - kindly guiding this individual at the Brisbane RNA earlier this year when I was a tad lost.
Hand picked and then crushed to 8 tonne open fermenters. Initially wild yeast fermented before some cultured yeasts applied to sustain fermentation. Fruit off of a single site, planted in 1972, in the Bethany sub-region, grown on deep dark clay.
At 6 years of age the wine is still showing some significant fruit presence: raspberries and redcurrants, intermingling with some chocolate and sweet perfumed oak.
Lovely texture in the middle, creamy oak feel - and it is this that really the wine's lasting memory: a loving, voluptuous embrace. A wee spike of heat before earthen spice shows itself providing a finish of moderate length, integrated tannin.
Source: Retail, The Wine Emporium
Price: $55
Alcohol: 14.5%
Closure: Cork
Website: www.yalumba.com
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