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Yangarra Ironheart Shiraz 2022

Name: Yangarra Ironheart Shiraz 2022
Brand: Yangarra Estate
SKU: YAIH202210 UCAU
Price: 133.59 AUD
Availability: InStock

$133.59

— A wine of exceptional quality, expressive flavor profile, terroir-driven expression, age-worthy elegance, and sustainability commitment, it promises an unforgettable wine experience.
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— The Ironheart Shiraz 2022 boasts a rich and complex flavor profile, luscious blackberry and dark cherry notes that intertwine seamlessly with hints of spice, licorice, and dark chocolate.
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— The wine is carefully crafted to develop and evolve over time, allowing you to experience its full potential.

Origin

South Australia McLaren Vale, Australia

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SKU: YAIH202210 UCAU

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TASTING NOTES

Yangarra Ironheart Shiraz 2022 is a flagship expression from the esteemed single vineyard estate in Blewitt Springs, located at the northern edge of McLaren Vale. This premium Shiraz benefits from a unique terroir characterized by a northern aspect, elevated terrain, and sandy ironstone soils, which together yield a wine of remarkable concentration, finesse, and complexity.

The 2022 vintage experienced a slightly cooler growing season than the previous year, supported by favorable winter rains and a mild flowering period. A cool ripening phase from late January to harvest in March ensured balanced yields with exceptional fruit ripeness, intensity, and natural acidity. These conditions have contributed to a wine with a tight frame structure and promising longevity, hallmark traits of this vintage.

Crafted from 100% Shiraz grapes, hand-picked on March 24th, the winemaking process embraces traditional techniques including 25% whole bunch fermentation and mechanical berry sorting. The wine undergoes approximately 21 days of skin contact in open fermenters with gentle cap management and wild yeast fermentation. Notably, no pressings are used, enhancing purity and texture. Maturation spans 19 months in French oak, including 12 months on lees in 35% new French oak puncheons, followed by blending with older Austrian and French oak foudres for an additional 7 months. This meticulous process culminates in a wine that is both expressive and refined. The Ironheart Shiraz 2022 is certified organic and biodynamic, reflecting a strong commitment to sustainability.

Tasting Notes: This wine reveals a rich and complex flavor profile, where luscious blackberry and dark cherry fruits intertwine seamlessly with nuanced hints of spice, licorice, and dark chocolate. The palate is layered and elegant, supported by refined tannins and vibrant acidity, offering both immediate pleasure and the potential to evolve beautifully with age.

Key Features:

A wine of exceptional quality with a terroir-driven expression and age-worthy elegance.
Rich, complex flavors featuring blackberry, dark cherry, spice, licorice, and dark chocolate.
Crafted using organic and biodynamic principles, underscoring a commitment to sustainability.
Carefully designed to develop and evolve over time, promising an unforgettable wine experience.

Yangarra Ironheart

TASTING PROFILE

LIGHT
FULL

LOW TANNIN
TANNIC

SWEET
DRY

LOW ACIDITY
HIGH ACIDITY

Aroma: Black Cherry, Chocolate, Savoury

Palate: Black Cherry, Blackberry, Spice

Food Pairings:

Game
Pork
Red Meat

Classification: Red

Variety: Shiraz

Vintage: 2022

Bottle : 750ml (Bottle)

Country: Australia

Region: South Australia

Alcohol: 14.5%

Cellaring: 15 Plus Years

Scores

97/100

'22 was a cool year that produced some reticent but excellent grenache, while shiraz seemed to sail through untroubled. This is an infant, of course, but there’s a ready appeal not always seen at this stage, a meshing of red, blue and black fruits – ripe raspberry, blackberry, blueberry, tart boysenberry, red plum, black olive – with an overlay of baking spices, iodine, coffee grounds and beef bouillon. And iron, yes. It’s on the label. In the ground. In the wine. Here, the wine benefits from that soil transfer being elegant, filigreed, not rugged. It needs a little time to be its best, but it’s a superb release.

Halliday's Wine Companion

Scores

96/100

The expressive 2022 Shiraz Ironheart is rich yet measured with a powerfully expressive core of bloody ferrous aromas lifted by dark earth and crushed spice tones. There is a finer side—touches of dried violet, white pepper and coal fire— with significant underlying tension as it tightens up on the long, enthralling close.

Angus Hughson

Scores

96/100

Deep ruby with a hint of purple in the light. Blood plum, lavender bush, nori and blackberry pastille aromatics. Deep and powerful, dense black and blue fruits fill the senses, equally balanced by anise, blood, nori and black pepper spices. It builds and builds to a crescendo of flavour intensity, but remains unwavering and driven by powerful fine gravelly tannins. The length is prodigious, carrying the harmony long and lingering, eventually fading with a drying flourish.

Stuart Knox

Scores

96/100

Floral and perfumed with an underlying power, showing notes of mulberries, wild blackberries, Damson plums and cured meat. The palate is full-bodied with seamless tannins and bright acidity, giving robust notes of dark cherries, iodine, mocha, violets and ferric earth. Well balanced and structured. Very serious. Drink or hold. Screw cap.

James Suckling

ABN: 13 116 972 313. SA License Number: 57701990

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