Yering Station Yarra Valley Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2024

Precision plus meets effortless refinement. It might have been a challenging vintage in the Valley, but there’s nary a sign of it in this extraordinary, lovely young Cabernet. Elevated aromatics in blackcurrant, plum, ripe black berries, dried herbs and understated florals of violet and sweet vanillin oak. The palate is pure velvet with Cabernet dark fruits front and centre with a strong support network of spice, anise, dried herbs, vanilla, earth, hints of Aussie bush and menthol. It’s a powerful mix of concentrated flavour, impressively integrated in its youth, and delivered smooth and long. What a gorgeous wine, a potent reminder of the undeniable relevance and suitability of the grape in the Valley. 

Jeni Port

Wine critic at Winepilot

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.

Wine writer and critic