Yarra Yering Dry Red Wine No. 1 2018 iconic wine Smoked apple wood and honey-roasted

Smoked apple wood and honey-roasted sugar maple take center stage

Region - Epernay

the fruit was pad picked

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Yarra Yering Dry Red Wine No. 1 2018 iconic wine Smoked apple wood and honey-roastedBeautiful. Memorable. Wonderful. The texture grabs you. The faintest grip, the sheath of feathery tannins at play. Scents of cassis, bay leaf, faint eucalyptus and mint, sandalwood and sweet earth. Pure flavours, come hither fruitiness, but compact, inward, extraordinarily long in character too. A cool expression, tense and taut, luxurious too, has flow, but all compact and restrained. It tastes delicious, generally, though its the feel, the stretch,