2021 Yering Station "Estate" Chardonnay Yarra Valley Victoria
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James Halliday
Reviewed October 2022Barrel fermented in 500L French puncheons. No mlf; nine months in barrel (20% new). There's a little struck-match character together with attractive aromas of just-picked nectarines and a hint of cashew. The palate is grapefruit pithy, gently textured and long. A very nicely put-together wine that will continue to improve over the short to medium term. (PR)
Professional Reviews
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James Suckling
Lemon curd, sliced apricots, pie crust and water lilies on the nose, followed by a cool, creamy and elegant palate. It’s medium- to full-bodied with flint and light toast notes coming through. (CN)
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Wine Enthusiast
An open-knit, fruit-forward nose of melon, peach and tangerine take the lead, with more lactic, buttered toast, roasted nut and saline notes tucked just beneath. The palate is slippery—almost glycerine-like—with a lovely tang of citrusy acidity and a peaches-and-cream finish. (CP)
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Review Date: 11/2025
The Yarra Valley is one of Australia’s premier cool climate growing regions for Chardonnay, and Yering Station is one of the most historic wineries here, with roots going back to the 1830s. The 2021 “Estate” Chardonnay is both a benchmark example of a lightly oaked wine from the Yarra, as well as an exceptionally good value. Now with several years of age, the golden fruit notes (apple, pear, lemon oil) have melded perfectly with the toasty oak aromas, and the fine, persistent line of acidity continues to hold the wine together, steering it into a surprisingly long finish. This is a more restrained, elegant, mineral-driven style of Chardonnay rather than a heavy oak-bomb — the winemaking choices here (whole-cluster pressing, only 30% new oak, large format puncheons for fermentation and maturation, and blocked malolactic) emphasize freshness and finesse over fruit ripeness. The result is a superb cool-climate modern Australian Chardonnay that balances minerality, fruit intensity, and oak beautifully. It's not a flashy wine by any means, but it has weight, texture, and concentration to age for several years more.
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Scott Beckerley
Review Date: 11/2025Scott Beckerley
Fresh out of the bottle, the first thing that pops out, scent wise, is a nicely clean mineral driven nose with white peaches and raw nut scents. With a little warming, the stone fruit scents become a little more plush. On the palate, the opening is infused with lemony flavors. These expand and flesh out into yellow and green apple flavors (leans a bit more toward green) with lush peaches. The whole shebang finishes with a nice clean oak note.
Notes
Nestled in the heart of the Yarra Valley, Yering Station holds the honor of being Victoria’s first vineyard — its initial vines were planted in 1838 by the pioneering Ryrie brothers. Over the decades the estate changed hands and evolved, with the Rathbone family acquiring it in 1996 and transforming it into a world-class cool-climate wine producer Today the estate spans multiple vineyard sites across Yarra Glen and Coldstream, and combines respect for tradition with modern precision viticulture: wild yeast fermentation, French-oak maturation and a parcel-by-parcel selection.
Details
| Type | White Wine |
|---|---|
| Varietal | Chardonnay |
| Origin | Yarra Valley, Victoria, Australia |
| Bottle Size | 750 mL |
| SKU | 1937231 |