2014 Yeringberg Cabernets

Yeringberg

Australia / Yarra Valley / Yeringberg

Cabernet Sauvignon 66%, Cabernet Franc 11%, Merlot 10%, Petit Verdot 9%, Malbec 4%. The last few years have witnessed an almost imperceptible notching up in the seriousness of the tannin structure of this wine, which remains as it always has been, a classic Yarra blend of the Bordeaux varieties. A distinctive nose of blueberry, cassis, olive and violets gives way to a cool, complex and restrained layer of cigar box, Christmas cake and fresh earth, in turn leading to a palate of almost surprising depth and structure. Seamlessly elegant, fresh and unassuming at first, the textbook mid-weight palate builds breadth and length as it sits in the glass, the structure evolving in perfect unison with the development of the old-vine fruit. Certainly enjoyable now, and a wine to continue to watch over the next 15+ years. – Sandra de Pury

August, 2017

James Halliday

Halliday Wine Companion 2018

96 points

66% cabernet sauvignon, 11% cabernet franc, 10% merlot, 9% petit verdot and 4% malbec. Right in the mainstream of the Yeringberg style, refined but not apologetic. All the components make their mark, yet stay well within the cabernet family. Blackcurrant/cassis, cedar, olive and earth notes all combine, the tannins pitched to perfection. A long life ahead. Gold medal Yarra Valley Wine Show '16.

March, 2017

Gary Walsh

The Wine Front

95+ points

Plum, cassis, golden fruit cake, violets, dusty cedar and tobacco, a feathering of spice. Medium bodied, richly fruited, yet subdued, with silky but densely packed tannin, cool fresh raspberry acidity, distinctly savoury black olive tapanade/tobacco sorts of stuff, and a superb long finish where a rainbow of fruit splashes and cascades down the old neck, then grainy tannin and tobacco brings you gently back down to earth. Supremely stylish, age-worthy Cabernet.

August, 2017

Huon Hooke

Gourmet Traveller WINE

95 points

A mélange of all five Bordeaux red varieties led by Cabernet, this is an elegant wine of purity and charm. The aromas are floral and gently herbal with red fruit and rose-petal predominating. Tannins are present but refined and gentle.

June, 2017

MaryAnn Worobiec

Wine Spectator

92 points

Dense and rustic, with sinewy tannins and tar, graphite and tobacco accents to the thick, chewy core of blackberry and plum. There's plenty of charm here, and much hope for the cellar. Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Malbec and Petit Verdot. Drink now through 2030. 25 cases imported.

August, 2018

Nick Stock

jamessuckling.com

95 points

Another very elegant rendition of this wine. It shows notes of brambleberries, cedar, pine needles, redcurrants and more plummy notes, as well as freshly picked herbs that never pop out too much. Medium to full body with a rather sophisticated tannin structure that’s never intrusive. A taut yet well-rounded finish. Drink now or hold. Screw cap.

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About Yeringberg

“Yarra Valley pioneers, the de Pury family are renowned for wines of finesse and elegance that epitomise the finest the region can produce. Produced from some of the oldest vines in the valley, these are long-lived wines made in tiny quantities. Yeringberg makes wines from the low-yielding vines re-established on the heart of what was one of the most famous vineyards of the nineteenth century. In the riper years, the red wines have a velvety generosity of flavour which is rarely encountered, yet never lose varietal character, while the Yeringberg White takes students of history back to Yeringberg's fame in the nineteenth century.” - James Halliday

About

Guill de Pury grew up beside the out-of-operation 19th-century winery in Coldstream where a lack of interest in fine table wines had caused production to cease in 1921. In 1969, Guill and wife Katherine decided to replant the vineyard and start again, and gradually restored the reputation of this great Australian estate.
Guill has since handed over chief responsibility for the wines to daughter Sandra de Pury. Sandra initially worked as a chef in Hong Kong after previous experience in kitchens and a period of study in hotel management in Switzerland. She then enrolled in an MBA program at the university of Melbourne, during which she won a scholarship to the University of Chicago. This was followed by a five-year stint as a jet-setting problem-solver with a Melbourne-based management consultancy.
Eventually her family heritage caught up with her and she succumbed to the wine bug. She completed a degree in oenology on her way to becoming fourth-generation winemaker at Yeringberg, where she views her art as “the perfect combination of intellectual, physical and sensory engagement.”