Chardonnay Reserve, Yering Station 2022
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Why this wine
Yering Station was Victoria's first vineyard and its Reserve Chardonnay is the serious end of the range, built from old Mendoza clone blocks picked by hand and chosen row by row using soil and canopy mapping. Blocking malolactic conversion keeps the acidity tight while 10 months in 500-litre puncheons adds texture rather than weight. A precise cool-climate Chardonnay that will reward a few years in bottle.
At a glance
- Grape
- Chardonnay
- Region
- Victoria, Australia
- Alcohol
- 13.20%
- Body
- Medium
- Acidity
- High
- Sweetness
- Dry
- Drink
- Medium (5-10 yrs)
- Pairs with
- Seafood, Poultry & Pork, Rich & Creamy Dishes
How it tastes
White flowers and stone fruit with perfumed spice from French oak and a savoury almond note underneath. Medium-bodied and precise, the texture from barrel work balanced by high acidity, since the wine went through no malolactic conversion. The finish is long and clean. Chardonnay 100%.
The producer
Yering Station was the first vineyard in the state of Victoria, its vines first planted in 1838 by the Scottish-born Ryrie brothers, and it remains a benchmark address for cool-climate Yarra Valley wine. The Yarra sits 45 kilometres east of Melbourne, its elevation running from 50 to 1,250 metres under the influence of the Great Dividing Range, with heavy winter and spring rainfall to carry the vines through dry, cool summers. The estate Chardonnay for this wine is all Mendoza clone, 10 to 22 years old, cane pruned and VSP trained on duplex grey loam over yellow clay, and the fruit is hand harvested; EM38 soil and canopy mapping is used each year to isolate the best blocks and even the best rows. The grapes were barrel fermented with a mix of wild and selected yeasts over 10 days, kept from malolactic conversion to hold the acidity, then racked to 500-litre French oak puncheons, 20% new, for 10 months. A wet start to the 2022 season cut yields, in some varieties by up to half, but concentrated flavour in what remained.
Food and drinking
Serve at 10-12C. Good with roast chicken, grilled scallops, a creamy mushroom risotto or crab linguine. Drinking well now and over the next five to eight years. Sealed under screwcap.