Yarra Yering - Dry Red No 3 Red Blend - 2024

Over a long period of time Yarra Yering Dry Red No. 3 has proven itself to be a masterstroke of both concept and execution. It’s a dry red wine grown on one of the best sites in the Yarra Valley, using an assortment of Portuguese grape varieties. The 2024 season has produced a blend of 46% Touriga Naçional, 23% Tinta Cão, 15% Tinta Roriz, 7% Tinta Amarela, 5% Alvarelhão and 4% Sousão. These are the last grapes harvested on the property each season. No new oak. It’s a wine of delicacy and a wine of difference. It’s also a wine that you want to guzzle, though it has the structure and associated quality markers to make you, also, want to cellar it. It tastes of a variety of berries, ripe and red but not necessarily sweet, with herb, woods, chicory and stem characters littered modestly throughout. It’s also a perfumed wine. And a contemplative one. Indeed, it’s not a wine to smack you in the face; you need to sit and let both you and it unfurl a bit. 95 Points Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front