2015 Yeringberg Pinot Noir 750ml

Awards, Ratings & Reviews

96/100 — Jeremy Oliver · 2015 Vintage
Drinking Window: 2027 to 2035

95/100 — Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion
“Destemmed, 7 days on skins, 18 months in barrel (40% new oak) bottled unfined and unfiltered. A bright, sparkling crimson-purple and enticing, so too the aromas of florals, red fruits and some woodsy spices, the oak perfectly integrated. It's deceptive at first at it feels effortless and lighter bodied, which it is, but it builds adding layers of fine tannin, more fruit and cleansing acidity.”

94/100 — The Wine Front · 2015 Vintage
Tasted: May 2018

About This Wine

Yeringberg Pinot Noir is a quintessential elegant Yarra Valley style typically showing fragrant red cherry fruit, fresh acidity and fine silky tannins. A fine boned-age worthy style, with cellaring, Yeringberg Pinot Noir develops attractive notes of forest floor and truffle.

The Pinot noir vines used for this wine were planted in 1969, 1970 & 1974. There are two clones – the younger vines are MV6 and the older vines are known as the Rutherglen clone.

All the fruit is crushed, de-stemmed and inoculated. Fermentation is generally rapid, with temperatures reaching 32°C. Ferments are plunged by hand every 8 hours. It is pressed as soon as the ferment is dry.

The wine is matured in hogsheads, about 30% new, for about 18 months, with 2–3 rackings. Not filtered.

Specifications

• Vintage: 2015
• Grape Variety: Pinot Noir
• Region: Yarra Valley / Victoria / Australia
• Fermentation: Crushed, de-stemmed and inoculated; fermented up to 32°C; plunged by hand every 8 hours
• Maturation: 18 months in hogsheads (about 30% new oak)
• Production Attributes: Not filtered
• Drinking Window: 2027–2035