2024 Yangarra Roussanne

Yangarra has been obsessed with Roussanne since 2007, and they are easily the benchmark for the variety in Australia. They treat the fruit with real kid gloves, hand-picking the blocks before a super gentle press. For this 2024, they aged it for seven months in older French oak and a clay amphora, which builds up that beautiful, savoury texture they are famous for without masking the fruit.

The 2024 season was a bit warmer, which gave this wine plenty of upfront muscle and richness. On the nose, it is completely exotic, bursting with poached pear, baked apple, ginger and a hint of manuka honey, alongside this really cool, salty coastal shrub character.

On the palate, it is wonderfully plush and slippery, but it stays totally fresh. You get heaps of grilled nectarine and grapefruit, but the real magic is the way the natural acidity and waxy grape skins work together to snap the finish tight. It is a big, serious white wine that cries out for food, think hot-smoked trout, pork belly or a rich terrine.

94 points
"Intensity, texture, complexity and ample structure – it’s all there and still with a fresh appeal. Excellent."
- Tom Kline (Wine Pilot)

94 points
"The palate shows great tension and purity, driven by a mineral line of acidity."
- Ryan Montgomery (James Suckling)

93 points
"There’s so much going on that I double-checked and re-poured my sample to make sure that I had the right wine."
- Canmpbell Mattinson (The Wine Front)