Yelland and Papps Vin de Soif Grenache Cinsault Mourvèdre 2024
- 94
- $32
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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One of the features of this wine is its brightness and energy, and that comes from slightly earlier picking and the use of whole clusters. The brightness is evident in the pale translucent colour with its bright crimson hues, and in the highly floral, lifted aromatics of the nose. The palate is simple a joy. Vibrant red berry fruits with that sort of slightly raspberry cherry combination. The acid is fine, and the lift on the finish takes you into another zone. A thoroughly engaging young red wine that I would prefer to drink in its early years.
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.
