2022 Yering Station Yering Village Pinot Noir Yarra Valley 750 ml

In 2024, only 14 Pinot Noirs made the cut for Wine Spectator’s Top 100 Wines of the Year.

It was a star-studded affair: Pricy names like Kistler, Drouhin, Williams Selyem, and Bergström dominated—and only ONE of those 14 Pinots was under $30. It’s the 2022 Yering Station Yering Village Pinot Noir, a beautifully perfumed, elegant, and silky Pinot, grown in an ideal climate and made by one of Australia’s most storied producers. 

Victoria is one of Australia’s most acclaimed wine regions, and Yering Station has been there longer than anyone else. The winery, which bears a five-red-star rating from Hailliday’s Wine Companion, dates back to 1838, when two Scottish brothers planted Yarra Valley’s first-ever vineyard. As the region garnered worldwide fame, Yering Station remained one of its top estates. 

Yarra is famed for having mild weather, and its huge array of elevations and exposures gives it a diverse range of microclimates. Pinot Noir thrives there, and Yering Station makes some of the region’s most sought-after bottlings, from grapes cooled every day by the winds that roll down the hillsides.

From this gently rolling landscape comes the 2022 Yering Village Pinot Noir, a red wine that strikes the perfect balance between forward fruit and forest-floor accents, all wrapped up in gossamer tannins. This spent ten days on the skins during fermentation for balanced extraction of fruit and structure, then a gentle ten months in 500L puncheon-sized barrels of French oak. The larger format meant for a slower micro-oxygenation, preserving the sappiness of the fruit and allowing the nuances of the wine to shine.