I am digging into a number of wines from the 2018 vintage. It is regarded as a very good one with a hot summer early on, but then an Indian summer towards vintage. Today's tasting is of the 2018 Yarra Yering No1 Cabernet Blend. Cabernet Sauvignon, the leading variety in this wine, has always been the flagship of Yarra Yering. How is this vintage shaping up?
I am blown over by my first taste. This is a big wine. Redcurrant and ripe raspberry flavours deliver a big fruit profile. Different in flavour, but similar in fruit weight to the Cirillo I reviewed just before. Despite the fruit concentration, the wine has good energy, and is balanced with fine grained tannins. The savoury characters need to come through to deliver complexity. This is another example where the screw cap slows down development (as I see particularly in Felton Road and Tyrells wines).
This wine has the potential to be great, but if you have it, do not drink before 2028.
Score: 95/++
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