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Yeringberg

2023

Viognier

Yarra Valley - Australia
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About

Though Viognier is but a newer voice in Yeringberg’s long history, Sandra de Pury tends to it with the same quiet devotion she gives to vines that have spoken for half a century. First released in 2008, Viognier was Sandra’s opportunity to build a wine from scratch. “With the viognier, I started with a clean slate and no history, and I could do whatever I liked,” Sandra says. It also joined the family’s selection of Rhône white grapes and gives a small but significant contribution to Yeringberg’s Shiraz.  In lesser hands, Viognier can become boisterious with over perfume, oily and heavy with its own richness; here, it is something altogether more graceful, a wine of poise, light, and inward radiance.  The cool, lingering 2023 season suited this expression beautifully, yielding fruit of what one might call understated opulence. Sandra harvested the block in three passes over three weeks, gathering the grapes at different moments of ripeness so that the finished wine might hold not merely one note, but the full, nuanced spectrum of the variety.

The fruit was hand-harvested, fully destemmed and gently crushed with four hours of oxidative skin contact.  Fermentation kicked off naturally in old 300-500L French oak demi-muids where the wine sat on its lees without any racking for 12 months.  Malolactic fermentation was blocked to maintain a bright line of freshness so often negelcted with the variety.  The wine was then racked to tank where it settled naturally prior to being filtered and bottled without any fining and just with a small sulfur addition.

Stats

  • Grapes: 100% Viognier
  • Vineyard: Yeringberg - Front Drive Block
  • Vine Age: 24-years-old
  • Soil Type: Ancient weathered silty grey loam over mudstone and calcareous siltstone
  • Viticulture: Regenerative
  • Fermentation: Native – neutral 300L & 500L French oak
  • Skin Contact: 4 hours (fully destemmed & crushed)
  • Aging: 12 months in neutral 300L & 500L French oak
  • Alcohol: 14%
  • pH: 3.75
  • Total Acidity: 4.9 g/L
  • Total SO2: 120 ppm
  • Total Production: 257 cases
  • SRP: $39.99

Tasting Note

There is something wonderfully self-possessed about this Viognier. It offers all the fragrance the variety promises—apricot just at the edge of ripeness, quince, yellow apple, acacia blossom and honey, wildflowers, a whisper of lavender and warm spice—but nothing is amplified for effect. Instead, each aroma seems to arrive naturally, as though carried on a gentle breeze through an orchard in late summer. The palate is generous without excess, its quiet richness lifted by crystalline acidity and a delicate phenolic weave that lends shape, tension, and remarkable length.

Press & Reviews

James Suckling

95

"Floral and lifted aromas of fresh apricots, lavender, fresh flowers, baking spices and pastry. The palate is medium-bodied with a generous texture and vivid acidity. A phenolic grip brings layers of complexity. Such a lovely Northern Rhone-style viognier. Drink or hold."
- James Suckling

Producer


Yeringberg

Region


Yarra Valley

Country


Australia

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