2021 Yangarra Roux Beaute Roussanne

Highly Rated
Benchmark small-batch Roussanne raised in ceramic eggs.

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Yangarra are a veritable runaway freight-train of success from McLaren Vale. Vintage after vintage, they've been setting their benchmark with their standard estate offering - but it's with small batches like this Roussanne that they really take things up a notch.

Welcome to the 'Roux Beaute'. Made in two 675L ceramic eggs, one fermented on its skins for a mammoth 134 days, this just oozes texture. It's luscious, powerful and complex whilst still maintaining phenomenal balance and freshness.

This is a wildly experimental wine. No one in the country is pushing the boundaries of this variety like Peter Fraser and his team.

Tight but textural with layers that unfold in the glass, this is a unique wine in the Australian landscape.

Our unique vineyard with its weathered sand and ironstone soil, starts this Roussanne's journey towards being an extraordinary wine. Months mellowing on grape skins in large ceramic eggs ensure a wine of luxurious texture and distinctive flavour.

Region: Blewitt Springs, McLaren Vale, SA
Blend: Roussanne (100%)
ABV: 13.00%
Closure: 750ml
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97 Points - "Pale medium colour. Waxy, grilled nut, apricot aromas with shellac notes. Beautifully concentrated apricot nectarine, grilled nut flavours, some waxy notes, fine loose knit chalky/ al dente textures and fresh indelible acidity. Precise, richly flavoured and crunchy." - Andrew Caillard (The Vintage Journal)

95 Points - "So expressive with white pepper, orange blossom, dried lemons, dried pineapples and spice. Powerful and spicy with a medium to full body and oily, yet fresh and vibrant layers. Lots of energy. 59% extended skin batch. Matured in ceramic eggs. From biodynamically grown grapes. This can age nicely." - James Suckling

94 Points - "Apricot, fresh pineapple, citrus blossom, a sort of salt and pepper thing happening too, along with a subtle smokiness, ginger and seaweed. It's juicy and fleshy in tropical fruit flavour, but has a spicy chalky skinsy grip to balance, almost a green spicy olive oil texture and character, along with lemon zest and green olive brine and sweet grapefruit acidity on a finish of good length. Complex. Interesting. Different. All good things." - Gary Walsh (The Wine Front)

97 Points - "Picked on a fruit day of the biodynamic calendar, with a portion destemmed and crushed to ceramic eggs where it remained on skins for 121 days, gleaning textural nourishment, complexity and persuasion. The rest, in an egg sans skins. All wild fermented. Among the greatest wines of this country, irrespective of colour. Rooibos, lanolin, quince, pithy stone fruits and almond croissant. A powerful, prodigiously textural wine of depth, resonance and profound belief." - Ned Goodwin MW (Halliday Wine Companion)

Yangarra

Yangarra Estate is one of a small group of powerhouse wineries to raise its head from the sandy soils of Blewitt Springs in McLaren Vale. Their wines are made entirely from an amazing old bush vine single vineyard, with the 2016 Halliday Winemaker of the Year, Peter Fraser, pulling the reins as winemaker. They are a certified biodynamic wine producer, and have even been named International Winery of the Year, twice!

They specialise in varieties found in the Rhone Valley. In the reds, their Grenache is as good as any in the land and is truly world class, with Shiraz and Mourvedre not far behind. The same applies to whites, the Roussanne expressions from Fraser’s experimentation with ceramic eggs are some of the most interesting in the country. In time, each of the 13 Rhone varieties will be grown on the Yangarra block.

A premium benchmark for the Blewitt Springs sub-region, and one of the country's modern day icon producers.

Winemaker Peter Fraser amongst the old bush vines McLaren Vale, SA Yangarra

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