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- 2022 Yarra Yering Dry Red No. 1
- 2022 Yarra Yering Dry Red No. 2
- 2022 Yarra Yering Dry Red No.3
- 2022 Yarra Yering Underhill Shiraz
- 2024 Yarra Yering Light Dry Red
- 2023 Yarra Yering Pinot Noir
2022 Yarra Yering Dry Red No. 1
Dry Red No. 1 is where it all began for Yarra Yering, and in 2022, it’s once again a masterclass in what makes the Yarra Valley one of Australia’s great Cabernet regions.
This is a wine built on the strength of its foundation - Cabernet Sauvignon from the very first plantings in 1969 - blended with Merlot, Malbec and a splash of Petit Verdot from neighbouring blocks. Every parcel is treated with reverence: whole berry ferments for fragrance, open-top fermenters for texture, a mix of new and seasoned oak, and one third of the Cabernet gets the royal treatment with eight weeks on skins in a 3,500L oak cask.
This is a glorious wine. A wine of depth and quiet power. Dark fruit, fine tannins, just enough grip, and a savoury undercurrent that builds with every sip. It’s polished, but not flashy - in every sense a benchmark of the famous Yarra Valley Cabernet wine style.
It's a wine destined for great things. Winemaker Sarah Crowe knocked this out of the park. It should be an essential part of any serious Australian cellar.
97 points
"Uber classical cabernet aromas with its core of concentrated and pure blackcurrant and cedar. Throw in hints of bay leaf, some gravel and a little sea spray and you have a pretty special Dry Red Wine No. 1. It's richly fruited and elegant with perfectly integrated, supple and persistent tannins. An altogether sumptuous and majestic wine."
- Philip Rich (Halliday Wine Companion)
96 points
"Sweet ripe berry aromas a touch of smoky reduction, a hint of briar, the palate has good intensity and focus, with a little astringency and bright acidity enlivening the middle and finish. Firm tannins add good structure to the wine. There is elegance and detail. Delicious wine that will reward cellaring."
- Huon Hooke (The Real Review)
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2022 Yarra Yering Dry Red No. 2
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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2022 Yarra Yering Dry Red No.3
Introducing Yarra Yering Dry Red No.3 - one of the Yarra's most unique wines, and one of its most delicious!
This is a field blend of 1990-planted Portuguese varieties Touriga Nacional, Tinta Cao, Tinta Roriz, Tinta Amarela, Avarelhao and Sousao - the last varieties to be picked from the vineyard each year.
It's made with gentle hands (and feet!) and only old oak, with the aim being to retain all the spice and bright fruit that this style can deliver.
You could enjoy it now or save it in the cellar for the medium-term, the choice is yours.
98 points & Best Other Reds & Blends of the Year
" A deserved winner of seven trophies across three shows last year, including being in the final Jimmy Watson lineup at the Melbourne Royal Wine Awards for the second year in a row. From its brilliant crimson purple colour to aromas of satsuma plums, wild berries and spice, there's a lot to love. Concentrated and flavoursome, yet balanced and very long with persistent and subtle tannins attesting to a wine that will age beautifully over at least the next 10 years."
- Philip Rich (Halliday Wine Companion)
2022 Yarra Yering Underhill Shiraz
Underhill is the more extroverted sibling in the Yarra Yering Shiraz family - generous, expressive and disarmingly drinkable from day one.
Sourced from a single block planted by Dr. Bailey Carrodus in 1973, this eight-acre patch at the western edge of the estate delivers Shiraz with muscle and charm in equal measure. Where Dry Red No. 2 broods, Underhill beams - showing plush dark fruits, cracked pepper, lavender and a whiff of smoked meats, all wrapped up in a supple, silken frame.
Winemaker Sarah Crowe gives this wine a mix of whole bunch and whole berry ferments, time in both large format oak and seasoned puncheons, and a deft handling of tannin that keeps everything in check without dampening the wine’s natural swagger.
Delicious now, especially with a decant, but will cruise gracefully through the next 10–15 years if you can hold off. A benchmark cool-climate Shiraz, straight from one of Australia’s greatest sites.
98 points
"This is a glorious shiraz, bursting with life and what will surely be a 40-year life span, so perfectly framed and balanced are its black cherry and blackberry fruit duo, tannins obediently bending the knee to the fruit."
- James Halliday (Halliday Wine Companion)
95 points
"A wine that is balanced and elegant enough to drink young but I would cellar it to bring more complexity into it. Elegant and delicious."
- Huon Hooke (The Real Review)
95 points
"Very polished and elegant. Drink or hold. Screw cap."
- Ryan Montgomery (James Suckling)
Trophy Winner (The Angelo Puglisi Grand Champion Wine of Show)
Royal Qld Wine Awards 2024
Trophy Winner (Best Red Table Wine of Show)
Royal Qld Wine Awards 2024
Trophy Winner (Beast Shiraz Wine of Show)
Royal Qld Wine Awards 2024
Trophy (Best Victorian Shiraz)
2023 Melbourne Royal Wine Awards
2024 Yarra Yering Light Dry Red
The Light Dry Red is Sarah Crowe’s playful nod to the so-called “Hunter River Burgundies” of the 1950s and ’60s – light, fragrant reds that were never Burgundian at all, but local Shiraz made for drinking young. Sarah takes that inspiration to the Yarra, blending Pinot Noir with Shiraz in a way that feels both nostalgic and distinctly modern.
The Pinot brings perfume and bright red fruits; the Shiraz, fermented as 100% whole bunches, adds spice, structure and a little savoury grip. Nine months in old oak ties it all together, keeping the fruit at the centre. The result is a red that’s lifted, silky and effortless to drink – the kind of wine that disappears quickly at the table - something that feels and tastes premium that you don't need to wait a decade to enjoy.
This is Yarra Yering at its most easygoing: fragrant, supple and made for right now. While the Dry Reds remain wines for the cellar, the Light Dry Red is Sarah’s invitation to open, pour, and simply enjoy.
2023 Yarra Yering Pinot Noir
Pinot Noir has deep roots at Yarra Yering - quite literally. The original vines, planted by Dr Bailey Carrodus in 1969, remain some of the oldest Pinot plantings in the modern Yarra Valley. At a time when the region’s potential was barely recognised, Carrodus had the foresight to set Pinot at the heart of his vision. Today, that decision feels prophetic.
The 2023 release shows the vineyard’s maturity and the precision of Sarah Crowe’s winemaking. Fruit was hand-picked and chilled overnight, then sorted twice before gentle destemming into Yarra Yering’s small open fermenters. Hand plunging kept the extraction fine and measured, bringing perfume and fruit purity to the fore. After pressing, the wine spent ten months in French oak barriques, around 30% new, giving a framework of subtle spice and texture.
This is a fuller, more structured expression of Yarra Pinot – dark cherry, plum, and spice layered over earthy savouriness. There’s real concentration here, carried by a fine tannin spine and bright natural acidity. It’s built with intent: approachable now, but with the substance and balance to cellar effortlessly for a decade or more.
| Region | Yarra Valley |
| Australian State | VIC |
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| Size | 7 |
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