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Yangarra High Sands Grenache 2007
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Mighty wine of extreme intensity, yet beautifully balanced with a feral/all natural countenance, this is as much a sprinter as a shotputter, and a drink that will confound and delight those who trouble it as a punk, as much as it will render smug and insufferably snobbish those who manage to keep it for a decade or two, when it will become an avuncular Professor of Philosophy with an Olympic gold for the shotput in the desk. Built around a trainline of natural acidity and a whole sand dune of natural skin and pip tannin, with massive adornments of concentrated fruit and liqueur on top, the High Sands sits somewhere between the Sphinx and the Great Pyramid as far as international Grenache goes. It is by its very nature a mixed metaphor. We know there is nothing else like it.
The key to Yangarra's unique flavours 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 (which is very young in Australia's ancient geology). This sand is an extremely weathered remnant of mountain ranges that stood here 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.
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| Don't Pay: $85
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WBW Rating: 93/100
Closure: Cork
Region: McLaren Vale SA |
Winemaker: Peter Fraser
Drink now until: 2017
Alc/Vol: 14 %
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