2024 Yarra Yering Dry White No. 2 | 96+ Point Rhône White Blend

🏆 96+ POINTS | FOUR RHÔNE VARIETIES | ONE EXTRAORDINARY YARRA YERING WHITE

One of Australia's Most Fascinating White Wines

This extraordinary wine combines Marsanne, Roussanne, Grenache Blanc and Viognier into a beautifully textured, aromatic and incredibly complex white

96+ Points – Halliday Wine Companion
95 Points – The Real Review
95 Points – The Wine Front

Yarra Valley, Victoria

RRP $70 a bottle

Forget Sauvignon Blanc. Forget Chardonnay.

If you want to drink something genuinely different, the 2024 Yarra Yering Dry White Wine No. 2 is one of the most exciting white wines in the Yarra Valley.

Inspired by the great white blends of France's Rhône Valley, this extraordinary wine combines Marsanne, Roussanne, Grenache Blanc and Viognier into a beautifully textured, aromatic and incredibly complex white.

And the 2024 is an outstanding release.

96+ points from Halliday Wine Companion, together with 95 points from both The Real Review and The Wine Front, puts it firmly among Australia's elite alternative white blends.

Tasting Notes

This is wonderfully complex from the moment it hits the glass.

Expect layers of:

• Nashi pear
• White peach
• Green apple
• Honeysuckle
• Jasmine and white flowers
• Citrus
• Oyster shell and brine
• White pepper and exotic spice
• Beeswax
• Subtle creamy notes
• Chalky minerality

The palate is where this wine really comes alive.

There's beautiful fruit weight and texture, but also tremendous energy. Fresh pear and crunchy green apple run through the centre while a fine chalkiness provides grip and definition.

It's rich without being heavy, textured without becoming broad, and incredibly fresh despite its concentration.

The winery describes the wine as textural and lightly tannic, with ceramic-egg maturation contributing chalkiness and grip to the long, bright palate.

Critical Acclaim

96+ Points – Halliday Wine Companion 2027
95 Points – Stuart Knox, The Real Review
95 Points – Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front

Campbell Mattinson's 95-point assessment is particularly enthusiastic.

This is a serious white wine.

A Rhône-Inspired Yarra Valley Blend

The 2024 blend is:

46% Marsanne
30% Roussanne
16% Grenache Blanc
8% Viognier

It's a fascinating combination.

Marsanne provides body, texture and pear-like fruit.

Roussanne contributes perfume, richness, herbs and complexity.

Grenache Blanc adds freshness, citrus and drive.

Viognier lifts the aromatics with flowers and stone fruit.

Together they produce something completely different from conventional Australian white wine.

It's one of those wines where you keep finding something new every time you return to the glass.

Fascinating Winemaking

The winemaking is just as interesting as the blend.

Each grape variety is harvested separately at optimum ripeness, with the fruit hand-picked, chilled overnight and then whole-bunch pressed.

The unclarified juice is gravity-fed into seasoned French oak barrels, while portions of the Marsanne and Roussanne are fermented and matured in ceramic eggs.

The individual components then remain undisturbed for approximately 10 months before blending and bottling.

The ceramic eggs are particularly interesting because they contribute texture without introducing oak flavour.

That's part of what gives Dry White No. 2 its distinctive combination of fruit weight, chalkiness, grip and freshness.

Yarra Yering Doing What Yarra Yering Does Best

What I love about this wine is that it demonstrates why Yarra Yering remains such an important Australian estate.

They don't simply make Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Shiraz because those are the varieties people expect from the Yarra Valley.

They make wines with identity.

Dry White Wine No. 2 takes varieties more commonly associated with the Rhône and gives them an unmistakably Yarra Valley interpretation—fresh, detailed, beautifully structured and completely distinctive.

And Yarra Yering's overall standing has never been stronger: the estate was ranked The Real Review's Best Australian Winery for 2026.

Food Pairings

This is an exceptional food wine.

Try it with:

• Roast chicken
• Grilled kingfish
• Lobster
• Seared scallops
• Roast pork
• Crab pasta
• Moroccan-spiced chicken
• Pumpkin and sage ravioli
• Mushroom dishes
• Comté or Gruyère

The combination of texture, perfume and savoury spice makes it far more versatile at the table than many conventional aromatic whites.

Cellaring

There's a lot to enjoy now.

The white flowers, pear, stone fruit and spice are beautifully expressive, while the palate already has terrific texture.

But the combination of fruit concentration, phenolic grip and acidity suggests this should become increasingly complex with bottle age.

Drink now–2032+.

I'd happily buy enough to drink some young and watch the rest develop.

Why We Love It

This is exactly the sort of wine serious wine lovers should be exploring.

The 2024 Yarra Yering Dry White Wine No. 2 isn't another Chardonnay or Sauvignon Blanc. It's a blend of 46% Marsanne, 30% Roussanne, 16% Grenache Blanc and 8% Viognier, fermented and matured using seasoned French oak and ceramic eggs.

And look at the reviews:

96+ Points – Halliday Wine Companion
95 Points – The R Review
95 Points – The Wine Front

For RRP $70, that's outstanding.

It's floral, spicy, mineral, textural and incredibly complex, with enough richness to satisfy Chardonnay drinkers but enough freshness and savoury tension to keep you coming back for another glass.

If you've never had Yarra Yering Dry White No. 2 before, the 2024 is the vintage to discover it. This is one of the most interesting white wines being made in Australia.

👉 96+ Halliday + 95 Wine Front + 95 Real Review. If you think Yarra Valley white wine begins and ends with Chardonnay, Dry White No. 2 will completely change the conversation.