Yering Station Single Vineyard PDC Shiraz 2020
- 93
- $70
- Drink by: 2022-2033
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Another newie from Yering Station, a single vineyard Shiraz to match the single vineyard Y28 Block Chardonnay. What does PDC actually mean? No idea, and Yering Station isn’t telling, but who cares? It’s a name to remember, nonetheless. Here, the level of Viognier is turned up to 5% and there’s fruit aplenty to enjoy. This is a robust example of ripe fruit which is well structured by some delightfully smooth and integrated tannins. The colour is purple and strikingly bright. The perfume is pure blood plums, chocolate and a long shopping list of spices: cinnamon, nutmeg, pepper, Chinese five spice. It’s pretty intense and topped off with a lick of smoky oak. It sets the scene well for flavours that move into sour cherry with just enough of a touch of tartness before more of the gentleness of spice and oak. Slight dryness to the finish, but I suspect it is still very early days for this youngster. It’s yet to really open up.
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.
