2018 Yering Station Chardonnay Yarra Valley Australia

The only reason Yering Station Chardonnay isn’t more famous in the US is that it rarely surfaces here. It hardly makes it out the winery door before vanishing into the hands of diehard fans and Australian wine shops—especially when it bears a 95-point score and the mark of the 2018 vintage, a year Wine Advocate scored as Yarra Valley’s best ever.

But we’ve been in Yering Station’s corner for years (we got to know former winemaker Willy Lunn in his Oregon days), and thanks to that relationship, we scored the last 75 cases of this luminous 2018 to arrive stateside. 

2018 was an outstanding vintage for Yarra Valley, and “Chardonnay (as ever) was the standout,” said James Halliday’s Wine Companion. Yering Station molded the year’s cool spring and long, dry summer into a gorgeously pure and concentrated Chardonnay. This wine is so immediately alluring, so complex, and so easy to drink that it would be a serious threat to our bank accounts if the price matched the quality. 

Like the best long-established producers of Burgundy, Yering’s long-standing investment in the land has made them capable of releasing both marquee wines and some of Victoria’s finest values, which has landed the winery on Top 100 lists from Wine Enthusiast and Master of Wine Jancis Robinson.

Matured in a combination of new and seasoned French oak with lees stirring, this 2018 gains a roundness, appealing density, and seamlessness that all but demand a second bottle.

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• ABV 13.00%
• 15 mins
• Drink Up
• % Chardonnay
• Serving temperature – 48°
• Screw cap