Yeringberg Cabernets 2022
Wine Companion Top 100 Wines. The 49th vintage of a Yeringberg from our old vines. A high-quality vintage producing excellent, intense wines in small quantities.
Picked between 24 March – 1 April 2022. Bottled Feb 2024. This year’s blend comprises Cabernet Sauvignon 63%, Merlot 16%, Petit Verdot 10%, Malbec 7%, Cabernet Franc 4%. A little more Cabernet Sauvignon than usual and a lot less Cabernet Franc. Yields across the five varieties varied from 0.5 to 2.3 tonnes per acre. Yeringberg is always a ‘field’ blend, ie the vineyard and the vintage determine the final blend, not the winemaker.
The fruit is all hand picked, and carefully sorted. The grapes are destemmed and crushed, and fermented in small open top tanks and hand plunged. Time on skins ranged from 12-21 days. The wine was aged in French oak barriques for 21 months, about 40% new. Producer's note.
A blend of 63/16/10/7/4% cabernet sauvignon/merlot/petit verdot/malbec/cabernet franc. That's two great back-to-back vintages for this Yarra Valley and Australian classic. Bright crimson purple. A wonderful bouquet of perfectly ripened black cherries, blackcurrants, cedar (from the already integrated oak) and lavender. With its core of dark fruits and impeccably balanced, fully ripe yet silky tannins, this complex and harmonious wine is destined to join the ranks of the very best Yeringbergs.
98 points. Philip Rich, Wine Companion Aug 2024.
A wonderful year for our Yeringberg blend. This wine will be fascinating to observe as it evolves over time. An elegant and complex nose of blackcurrant, violet and liquorice is interwoven with notes of Christmas cake, tapenade and graphite. The palate, generous and pure, laden with blue & black fruits, is understated and beautifully delineated. It has mid-weight elegance, seamlessly embedded tannins, and a long, refreshingly generous finish.
Sandra De Pury, Producer.
Black fruit, cedar, dried herbs and flowers, the smell of damp earth and petrichor. It’s all blackberry, tobacco and dried herb, quite some chew to grainy tannin, ripe tomato acidity, a fair clip of cedar oak, and a finish of good length. This is very tightly coiled as at now, and needs some time to unfurl. It’s savoury and quite meaty, but does have plenty of potential.
94+ points. Gary Walsh, The Winefront Nov 2024.
