Yering Station Yarrabank Brut Rosé 2016
- 90
- $45
- Drink by: 2023-2025
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A sparkling that is showing its age, but in a good way. It is mature, complex and savoury with plenty of secondary development that leads to a wine that is particularly well suited to the table. Copper-rose gold hues. The scent of acacia, dusty earth, undergrowth, macerated cherries, sarsaparilla and Brazil nut reveal a fully mature, expressive sparkling. Tastes of the earth, of mushroom and undergrowth with an attractive nuttiness and exotic marzipan notes that are warm and textural. Not your aperitif style sparkling but definitely could take its place alongside a meal of game or duck.
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.
