Description
"If you were only going to take one Australian winery to the world, Yangarra may well be it."
- Campbell Mattinson (Halliday Wine Companion)
- 2024 Yangarra Ovitelli Grenache
- 2024 Yangarra Hickinbotham Grenache
- 2024 Yangarra King's Wood Shiraz
- 2023 Yangarra Ironheart Shiraz
2024 Yangarra Ovitelli Grenache
From a single block of 1946-planted bush vines at the heart of Yangarra’s certified biodynamic vineyard, the Ovitelli is Grenache at its most poised and pure. This wine has become one of the benchmark expressions of the variety in Australia - a study in restraint, precision, and site transparency.
Sourced from Block 30, adjacent to the famed High Sands vines, the fruit is meticulously berry sorted, destemmed, and fermented in large ceramic eggs. The wine remains on skins for seven months post-ferment, no pressings, no oak, just slow, patient development in ceramic.
The 2024 vintage has more flesh than the fine-boned 2023 and looks all the better for it. Plushness and purity is how we describe the 2024 - it's sensational.
A pure, site-driven expression that feels less like a winemaker’s fingerprint and more like a direct transmission from vine to glass. One of Australia’s great Grenaches - full stop.
97 points
"Together, the wine looks both supple and tightly coiled, and it bears all the hallmarks of aging impressively well over the week it has been open, and decades into the future too. This is a super wine."
- Erin Larkin (The Wine Advocate)
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"Smart grenache that will reveal more when cellared."
- Huon Hooke (The Real Review)
2024 Yangarra Hickinbotham Grenache
A single-site Grenache from one of the most storied vineyards in McLaren Vale, this small-batch bottling sees Yangarra flex their winemaking muscles just five minutes up the road in Clarendon.
Sourced from dry-grown bush vines planted in 1962 on the Hickinbotham estate, this is Grenache of depth and finesse. The 2024 season began with a wet winter and dry spring as conditions transitioned from La Niña toward El Niño. Unexpected summer rainfall encouraged generous bunch and berry development, while warm weather through late summer delivered balanced ripeness and expressive fruit. A concentrated two-week harvest captured the vineyard at its peak and has produced one of the wines of the vintage for this estate.
It's an incredibly fine, lifted expression of Grenache: red cherry and blood orange, a flicker of spice, and silky tannins that carry the wine with subtle power. It’s the second vintage with full organic and biodynamic certification from this block, and it shows in a wine that hums with energy. How good is Grenache from this part of the world??
Read More96+ points
"Elegance is a byword for the whole grenache suite, with transparency, fine detail and natural tannin complexity constants. Deep red and black cherry, dark rose, some faint blue fruit/floral cues, Baharat, a very fine anise note, along with amaro herbs and warm earth, all so finely wrought. Tannins are so elegant yet insistent, and the accord with acidity make this dangerously drinkable now; though, given the wine holds up for several days, the future is assured."
- Marcus Ellis (Halliday Wine Companion)
2024 Yangarra King's Wood Shiraz
The King’s Wood has always sat at the more refined end of the McLaren Vale Shiraz spectrum, and in 2024 it hits something like a McLaren Vale Cornas, to use a trite comparison.
Sourced from a southeast-facing patch of ironstone and sandy soils on Block 12, this is a wine of tension, depth and lifted savoury charm. With 20% whole bunches in the ferment and the rest carefully berry sorted, it spent around 20 days on skins before gentle basket pressing into large format French and Austrian foudres. Oak plays a quiet supporting role here, letting the fruit do the heavy lifting.
It's a Shiraz that has always leaned into elegance over excess. There’s plum skin, black cherry, tapenade, cured meat and pepper spice, with fine, framing tannins and a cooling sense of energy.
This is Yangarra’s take on Shiraz with finesse - a wine that speaks more to Northern Rhône inspiration than McLaren muscle. A serious, structured, beautifully poised wine.
Read More96+ points
"So much complex and engaging detail here, layered, available, not cloaked by oak, and never forced. The tannin structure is refined and this is sapid in delivery, made for the table. A superb release."
- Marcus Ellis (Halliday Wine Companion)
2023 Yangarra Ironheart Shiraz
The Ironheart Shiraz is a blend of the best barrels from the most profound block of Shiraz on the biodynamically farmed Yangarra Estate in McLaren Vale.
Block 15, the most distinctive of the twelve blocks of Shiraz on the Yangarra vineyard, was planted in 1999 on ironstone gravels and yields Shiraz fruit of immense concentration and complexity – a wine built for great things in coming decades.
The 2023 season was shaped by cool, wet conditions that delivered balanced canopies and naturally lower yields. Thoughtful vineyard practices encouraged healthy fruit and even ripening, enabling a concentrated three-week harvest completed in early April, producing an elegant vintage of Yangarra's Shiraz flagship.
Complex and full-bodied, with floral notes, rich black fruits, cocoa nibs, cardamom and smooth, refined tannins.
Read More96 points
"This, the flagship shiraz.. It’s testament to the farming here that so much flavour is achieved at this ripeness and weight, and this promises to age well; just give it a year or two."
- Marcus Ellis (Halliday Wine Companion)
| Price Bracket | $101 and Above |
| Feature |
High Score Organic Biodynamic |
| Size | 5 |
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