Yering Station Single Vineyard Y13 Block Pinot Noir 2025
- 93
- $75
- Drink by: 2026-2035
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Another big tick for the role of stand-alone vineyards, Y13 emerges as a very different style of Pinot to the Laura Barnes – which is surely the point of single blocks. Will appreciate a quick decant or some swishes in the glass, its youth showing a quiet reluctance at first, but with time it emerges quite playful, fruit-filled and leafy. Purple fruits, plums, black cherries and dark woody spices gather. Oak that was noted early on recedes and there’s a growing rise of herbs, rosemary in particular, leaf, red liquorice, spice. Fruit has good intensity and it’s bright and lively, to boot.
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.
