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2006 Yangarra Estate Vineyard - Old Vine Grenache
Country: South Australia Rating: -
Wine Type: Red Rating: -
SKU: SKU16304
Weight: 3.50 lbs Available: 5
Your Price: $19.95 Quantity:

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Producer:
Yangarra Estates 		Winemaker:
Peter Fraser
Importer:
KJ Wine Estates International 		Production:
3,612 6-pks.
Grape Varietals:
Name Annunciation Percentage Description
Grenache
(gruh-NAHSH)
100%
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Grenache
Description:
Yangarra is an aboriginal word meaning "from the earth". All the wines are grown on their single vineyard estate in the Blewitt Springs sub region of Mclaren Vale, South Australia. In 1946 the Smart family planted Grenache vines in a gray sandy dune at the northern edge of the McLaren Vale. Yangarra Estate Vineyard is located on the site of these original bush vine plantings. There are 250 acres of vines in 35 individual blocks spread amongst 420 acres of creeks, native vegetation and nature corridors. The Estate sits at the north-eastern extreme of the Willunga Basin at the foot of the South Mount Lofty Ranges.
Winery:
They are utterly devoted to minimal intervention in viticulture and winemaking. The key to Yangarra's unique flavors is a large, smooth dune of Ngankipari sand, a precisely-delineated aeolian, or wind-blown geological formation that was laid down about a million years ago. This sand is an extremely weathered remnant of mountain ranges that stood there 1.6 billion years ago, weathered away, and then rose again 500 million years ago. After a second weathering, the current ranges began to rise about 100 million years ago.
Vinification:
The grapes were picked on flavor and tannin ripeness, not brix numbers. After a cold pre-soak, fermentation in open-tanks began naturally with wild yeast. Winemaker Peter Fraser, lets the wild yeast do their trick in his deliberately hands-off style of winemaking. Eighteen months in seasoned French oak barrels helped soften the edges and add complexity.
Bouquet or Aromas:
The color is a beautiful opaque black purple and is the most aromatic Grenache they have made to date. On the nose is a rush of cloves, roses, lavender, dark cherries and black raspberries with Hints of cocoa powder, dry field herbs and aromatic dry earth-sand.
Taste:
On the palate, the wine is rich and mouth-coating with young grainy tannins that will soften in time. A huge full mouth of black cherries, black raspberries and cloves, dusty rose and earthy dry herbs. As it evolves, the wine will develop the trademark dry cocoa powder, freshly-sawn jarrah and leathery earthiness that this vineyard produces year after year.
Pairings:
Grenache is a great food wine with its explosion of rich fruit flavors and balanced tannins. You can pair it with all sorts of meat dishes. Try it with a cowboy rib eye, barbecued chicken, braised Moroccan lamb or a roasted bourbon pot roast.
Cheese Pairing:
Red Leicester
 
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