Yangarra Estate Ovitelli Grenache 2024
- 96
- $80
- Drink by: 2026-2038
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These Grenache Noir vines were planted in 1946, right alongside the High Sands block. Once again, ceramic eggs have been used. The fermentation and then time on skins before maturation for 11 months. This is largely free run. In fact, no oak has been used. Once again, that pretty vibrancy is well to the fore, and it captures so much of what Grenache from this region is all about, certainly when it’s handled in such a sympathetic, compassionate way. It’s bright, it’s vervey, great energy, and with beautiful texture and flavours. It’s a superb wine.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
