Yelland & Papps Single Vineyard Roussanne 2024
- 92
- $49
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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The Barossa Valley is marvellously well suited to Rhône red varieties – we all know that – and now we are seeing more producers embrace Rhône whites. This is a top example, all honeysuckle, wildflowers and citrus wrapped up in a warm textural hug. Comes to life in high aromatic scents of citrus blossom, honeysuckle, spring wildflowers, citrus and lightly spiced apple. It’s a textural wine, moving smoothly, creamily, across the tongue bringing a mix of gentle savoury almond amid flavours of ripe apple, pear, citrus, quince and spice. It’s a subtle effect which runs deep . . . very Roussanne.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
