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"If you were only going to take one Australian winery to the world, Yangarra may well be it."
- Campbell Mattinson (Halliday Wine Companion)
- 2023 Yangarra Ovitelli Grenache
- 2023 Yangarra Hickinbotham Grenache
- 2023 Yangarra King's Wood Shiraz
2023 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 result is something electric.
The 2023 vintage brings cool-season finesse to this already ethereal wine. It’s delicate but structured, coiled with redcurrant, blood orange and pomegranate, laced with crushed herbs and a saline, stony edge. The tannins are fine but firm, and the finish lingers with precision.
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
"Savoury, dried red fruits… warm terracotta, bergamot, potpourri… tightly coiled but also tensile… tension aplenty… promises to unfurl over a long life. Superb."
- Marcus Ellis (Halliday Wine Companion)
96 points
"Wild strawberries, raspberries, sweet spices… dark cherries, dried herbs and cocoa… exceptionally lifted and fresh."
- Ryan Montgomery (James Suckling)
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"Fresh, vibrant Grenache from a 1946 block near High Sands… Delightful mouthfeel, fine chalky thread, and a light red fruit lift on the sustained finish."
- Ray Jordan (Wine Pilot)
2023 Yangarra Hickinbotham Grenache
A single-site Grenache from one of the most storied vineyards in McLaren Vale, this small-batch bottling sees Yangarra and Pete Fraser flex their winemaking muscle 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, shaped by the cooler 2023 season and the vineyard’s high elevation and sandy soils. The fruit was handpicked, gently crushed and fermented in cocciopesto amphorae, where it stayed on skins for a full six months - a bold yet gentle approach that amplifies perfume and purity.
The result is an incredibly fine, lifted expression: red cherry and blood orange, a flicker of spice, and silky tannins that carry the wine with subtle power. It’s the first vintage with full organic and biodynamic certification from this block, and it shows in a wine that hums with energy and site expression.
A standout in any vintage, but in 2023, this is Grenache with a light touch and serious pedigree.
97 points
"Pale in the glass… red cherry and sour black cherry, Baharat spicing, warm concrete, struck rock… beguiling is the perfume… utterly individual and absolutely world class."
- Marcus Ellis (Halliday Wine Companion)
96 points
"Light ruby with purple… bright raspberry fruit with smoky flint… lifting acidity and firm gravel tannins… refreshing dryness."
- Stuart Knox (The Real Review)
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"Perfumed and floral aromas… wild raspberries, rose petals, ocean spray… strawberries, sweet spices and cassia bark… very fresh."
- Ryan Montgomery (James Suckling)
2023 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 2023 it hits a fresh high note. 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. The 2023 vintage lends even more aromatic clarity and detail.
This is Yangarra’s take on Shiraz with finesse - a wine that speaks more to Northern Rhône inspiration than McLaren muscle, all while staying firmly rooted in the identity of its site. A serious, structured, beautifully poised wine.
97 points
"Blood plums, cured meat, mulberries, blueberry bush… tightly wound notes of cherry confit, iodine, ferric earth, mocha… exceptionally well constructed."
- Ryan Montgomery (JamesSuckling.com)
Read More96 points
"Blackberry pastille, blueberry, tart boysenberry and black cherry… malted barley, roasted meat, coffee, star anise… underlying finesse… Excellent."
- Marcus Ellis (Halliday Wine Companion)
| Price Bracket | $101 and Above |
| Feature |
High Score Organic Biodynamic |
| Size | 5 |
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