2022 Yarra Yering Dry Red No. 2
2022 Yarra Yering Dry Red No. 2

2022 Yarra Yering Dry Red No. 2

99 pts
Yarra Yering |Yarra Valley |Shiraz
One of the Yarra Valley's most iconic and collectable Shiraz wines.
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Description

Extremely Limited - Halliday Shiraz of the Year and Red Wine of the Year. Score awarded by the Halliday tasting panel at the annual Awards judging.

The Dry Red No. 2 is Yarra Yering’s ode to the Rhône, a co-fermented blend with a distinctly Australian accent - layered, poised, and utterly seductive.

Originally dreamed up by the visionary Dr Bailey Carrodus, this wine is 96% Shiraz rounded out with flecks of Marsanne, Mataro and Viognier - an old-world blueprint reimagined through a Yarra Valley lens. As always, the winemaking is precise: hand-picked fruit, whole berries to boost fragrance, a few handfuls of frozen Viognier skins and Marsanne bunches added to select fermenters, then 15 months in fine French oak to knit it all together.

Complex from the first swirl - black cherry, licorice, iodine, graphite - before opening into a wine of seamless texture and savoury length. It’s already taken out Shiraz of the Year and Red Wine of the Year in the Halliday Wine Companion, and it’s not hard to see why.

This is elegant, age-worthy Australian Shiraz at the very top of its game. One for collectors, one for the table, and one that Dr Carrodus would surely raise a glass to.

99 points, Shiraz & Wine of the Year
"A brilliant crimson red. In fact, a brilliant Dry Red Wine No. 2. There's a little reduction when first poured but it doesn't take long for this to reveal a complex amalgam of red and black fruits, iodine, graphite and melted, dark licorice. Fleshier and more refined and seductive than last year's version. Incredibly svelte tannins. Supremely balanced. I reckon Yarra Yering's founder, Dr Bailey Carrodus, would be chuffed with this."
- Philip Rich (Halliday Wine Companion)

96 points
"Good deep, bright colour with nutmeg/spice and a whiff of oak in the bouquet. It's young and has what it takes to age well. The wine is deep in dark berry fruits, firmed up by taut tannins and acidity. Young and bold yet also elegant, with a bright future. Ideally it needs a bit more time."
- Huon Hooke (The Real Review)

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99 points & Wine of the Year - "Shiraz of the Year and Red Wine of the Year. Score awarded by the Halliday tasting panel at the annual Awards judging. PR writes: A blend of 96/1/2/1% shiraz/viognier/marsanne/mataro. Fermented with whole berries and matured in barriques (25% new). A brilliant crimson red. In fact, a brilliant Dry Red Wine No. 2. There's a little reduction when first poured but it doesn't take long for this to reveal a complex amalgam of red and black fruits, iodine, graphite and melted, dark licorice. Fleshier and more refined and seductive than last year's version. Incredibly svelte tannins. Supremely balanced. I reckon Yarra Yering's founder, Dr Bailey Carrodus, would be chuffed with this." - Awards Panel (Halliday Wine Companion)

96 points - "Good deep, bright colour with nutmeg/spice and a whiff of oak in the bouquet. It's young and has what it takes to age well. The wine is deep in dark berry fruits, firmed up by taut tannins and acidity. Young and bold yet also elegant, with a bright future. Ideally it needs a bit more time." - Huon Hooke (The Real Review)

Customer Reviews

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  • AH
    Adrian H.
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    1 week ago
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    2022 Yarra Yering Dry Red No. 2
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    Yarra Yerring-a-ding

    Excellent fruit profile, well blended, balanced, approachable but with the potential to cellar for an extensive period. A perfect combination. Great wine

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    Paul T.
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    4 years ago
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    2020 Yarra Yering Dry Red No. 2
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    Excellent wine

    YY are excellent, wines, suggest a 6 year lay-down for the reds, to allow them to fully integrate. Best Buy a few each year.

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    Lorant S.
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    5 years ago
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    2020 Yarra Yering Dry Red No. 2
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    One of the best Australian Shiraz Viogniers around

    One of my favourite styles and this is one of the best. Up there with Clonakilla and even Torbreck Run Rig! A nice fresh (lighter) style typical of a cooler climate with a beautiful nose and nice juicy acidity leaving you wanting another sip.

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Winemaking

Fruit was hand-picked, transferred across a sorting table and destemmed directly to the Yarra Yering half-tonne open-fermenters. As much whole berry as possible is retained to encourage perfume. A small portion of fermenters had frozen Viognier skins; tiny yields this year, added to the bottom. A few more enjoy the inclusion of Marsanne bunches. The wine was aged for 15 months in French oak barriques, 25% new before blending and bottling.

Technical Data

Varietals: 96% Shiraz, 2% Marsanne, 1.5% Mataro, 0.5% Viognier,

Region: Yarra Valley, Victoria, Australia.

Vines: Original 1969 plantings of Shiraz & Marsanne, with additional Shiraz planted across the 1990’s. The Mataro and Viognier are drawn from vines planted from 1984 to 1995.

Cellaring: This fragrant style is approachable as a young wine but with some bottle maturation will evolve into a beautifully complex wine. This blend has a track record thus it will continue to evolve for a further 20+ years under suitable cellaring conditions should you want to cellar it for an extended period, although medium-term cellaring also brings rewards.

Alcohol: 13.5%

Price Bracket $101 and Above
Type Red
Body Full Bodied
Variety Shiraz
Country Australia
Region Yarra Valley
Australian State VIC
Feature High Score
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Women in Wine
Reviewed By Halliday Wine Companion
The Real Review
Critic Score 99
96
Alcohol 13%
Size 750ml
Vintage 2022
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Yarra Yering

Yarra Yering is one of the most iconic wineries of the modern Yarra Valley.

Founded in 1969 by the visionary vigneron Dr. Bailey Carrodous, Yarra Yering has become a benchmark in quality and one of the most collected wineries in the country.

From this small patch of earth in the North of the Gruyere sub-region, Dr. Carrodous produced these legendary wines for more than three decades. In the process becoming recognised as one of the most influential winemakers in the Yarra's history.

Today, the wines are crafted by the talented Sarah Crowe. She brings the wines to bottle with the same passion and attention to detail that made the great Yarra Yering wines of old so revered.

Winemaker Sarah Crowe Yarra Yering

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