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  • Country ranking ?

    267
  • Producer ranking ?

    2
  • Decanting time

    2h
  • When to drink

    2020-2035

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Founded by the Kirby family, the Yabby Lake business is now headed up by Chief Winemaker and General Manager Tom Carson with a dedicated team of the industry's most experienced wine professionals working to deliver the Kirby family vision.

The first chapter of this exciting Australian wine story started in 1992 when the Kirby family planted its first vineyard at Red Hill on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula. Intimately involved in the Mornington Peninsula region for decades, it was only natural that founders Robert and Mem Kirby would plant their first vines in the area.

In 1998, after much searching and careful planning, the Yabby Lake Vineyard was established in the sub-region of Moorooduc.

One year later, a rare and special parcel of land on the ancient Cambrian soils of Heathcote was planted with the sole objective to grow and craft one wine - a single vineyard shiraz.

Around the same time, the family also purchased the original Mount Helen Vineyard in the Strathbogie Ranges.

The Kirby family began working with viticulturist Keith Harris and soon engaged Larry McKenna to oversee the early vintages. Renowned Mornington Peninsula winemaker Tod Dexter was employed in 2004, applying his specialist knowledge of the region.

In 2008, after a decade of careful planning of the family's wine interests, Robert and Mem handed control of the family's vineyards and established labels to their children Nina and Clark.

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Tasting note

color

Light, Green-Yellow and Bright

ending

Long, Extensive and Flavorful

nose

Youthful, Pure, Seductive and Refined

taste

High in Acidity, Balanced, Medium-bodied, Elegant, Refined and Silky tannins

Verdict

Fine

Written Notes

Throughout the tasting for the Competition, a few wines snuck through and when revealed, were surprising – by which I mean that I had expected them to impress a little more. All sorts of reasons. Certainly for a few, the dreaded cork. In this case, I think it is one of those wines that has subtlety and elegance and does not stand out in the line up. Consequently, easy to miss and it suffers for that, when in reality, no fault of its own. I'd like to think that this is one of those wines, as it has always hugely impressed in the past. That said, it was still a lovely wine. Fresh, very pleasant floral notes. It is gentle and elegant. Perhaps didn't have quite the length one would wish on this tasting. Fine effort from the Mornington Peninsula.
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Origin

Tuerong, Mornington Peninsula

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