Yangarra Roux Beauté Roussanne 2021

Yangarra is a single-vineyard estate in Blewitt Springs, McLaren Vale, South Australia, offering ideal conditions for southern Rhône grape varieties due to its ancient geology, high altitude, and Mediterranean climate. The 2021 Roux Beauté Roussanne, grown in weathered sand and ironstone soils, boasts a luxurious texture and distinctive flavour from months of mellowing on grape skins in large ceramic eggs. Hand-picked from Block 6, with a blend of 59% extended skin contact and 41% without skins. The vineyard, planted in 1999 and grafted in 2003, sits at an elevation of 175m with soils of weathered sands and ironstone gravels, atop the 54-million-year-old North Maslin Sands.

97 points - Andrew Caillard

95 points - James Suckling