2023 Yarra Yering New Territories Shiraz Touriga | 96 Point Yarra Valley Red

🏆 DOUBLE TROPHY WINNING YARRA YERING BLEND

One of Yarra Yering's Most Exciting Wines

Trophies at both the 2024 Royal Queensland Wine Awards and 2024 Yarra Valley Wine Show

96 points - Ray Jordan | 95 points - Halliday Wine Companion | 95 points - The R Review 

Yarra Valley, Victoria

RRP $68 a bottle

This is Yarra Yering with the rule book thrown out the window.

The 2023 New Territories takes cool-climate Yarra Valley Shiraz and blends it with two of Portugal's great varieties, Touriga Nacional and Tinta Cão, creating one of the most distinctive reds in the Yarra Yering portfolio.

It's floral, spicy, juicy and beautifully savoury, with the elegance and precision you'd expect from Yarra Yering but a personality completely its own.

And the 2023 is a seriously successful release.

It received 95 points from Halliday Wine Companion and collected trophies at both the 2024 Royal Queensland Wine Awards and 2024 Yarra Valley Wine Show, plus gold medals at those shows and the 2025 National Wine Show of Australia.

At RRP $68, there is a huge amount of wine here.

Tasting Notes

Expect a wonderfully aromatic red bursting with:

• Blackberry and black cherry
• Mulberry and blueberry
• Crushed violets
• Aniseed and liquorice
• Black pepper
• Dried herbs
• Exotic spice
• Graphite
• Fine savoury oak

The palate is medium-bodied, vibrant and incredibly energetic.

There's beautiful juicy fruit through the centre, but this isn't simply about fruit. Fine-grained tannins provide serious structure, while violet, spice and aniseed characters keep emerging as the wine opens in the glass.

Halliday's review highlighted the combination of blackberry, cherry and crushed violets, together with the wine's persistent fruit and serious yet fine-grained tannins.

This is the sort of wine that becomes more fascinating with every glass.

95 Points – Halliday Wine Companion

The 2023 New Territories received:

95 Points – Halliday Wine Companion

And it wasn't simply the score that caught our attention.

At the 2024 Yarra Valley Wine Show, New Territories and Yarra Yering's legendary Dry Red No. 3 were the only two wines to receive gold medals in their class—with New Territories beating its famous stablemate to take the trophy.

That's some serious pedigree for a $68 wine.

Trophy-Winning Pedigree

The accolades for the 2023 are outstanding:

• Best Shiraz Blend Wine of Show – 2024 Royal Queensland Wine Awards
• Best Other Red Blend of Show – 2024 Yarra Valley Wine Show
• Gold Medal – 2025 National Wine Show of Australia
• Gold Medal – 2024 Royal Queensland Wine Awards
• Gold Medal – 2024 Yarra Valley Wine Show
• 96 Points – Ray Jordan, Winepilot
• 95 Points – Halliday Wine Companion
• 95 Points – Aaron Brasher, The R Review
• 93 Points – JamesSuckling.com
• 93 Points – The Wine Advocate

That's an extraordinary collection of results.

Shiraz Meets Portugal

The blend is one of the things that makes New Territories so fascinating:

60% Shiraz
20% Touriga Nacional
20% Tinta Cão

The Shiraz provides the core of juicy fruit and exotic floral fragrance.

Touriga Nacional, one of Portugal's great varieties, naturally brings firm tannins, spice and structural drive.

Tinta Cão contributes lifted violet aromatics, juicy mulberry fruit and aniseed spice.

Put them together and you get something that feels unmistakably Yarra Valley yet unlike conventional Australian Shiraz.

That's exactly the point of New Territories.

Yarra Yering Pedigree

Few wineries are more important to the modern history of the Yarra Valley than Yarra Yering.

The vineyard was established by Dr Bailey Carrodus in 1969, and the estate went on to produce some of Australia's most celebrated wines.

Today the wines are made under the direction of Sarah Crowe, and the 2023 vintage marked her tenth vintage at Yarra Yering.

New Territories shows another side of this legendary estate—experimental enough to be exciting, but with the precision and attention to detail you'd expect from Yarra Yering.

Food Pairings

Brilliant with:

• Chargrilled lamb
• Slow-roasted beef
• Duck breast
• Chorizo
• Portuguese-style pork
• Wood-fired meats
• Mushroom dishes
• Mature hard cheeses

The combination of juicy fruit, savoury spice and structured tannins makes this an incredibly versatile food wine.

Cellaring

There's enormous pleasure here now.

The perfume, vibrant fruit and spice make the wine immediately attractive, but those serious fine-grained tannins give it the structure to develop beautifully in bottle. Halliday's assessment specifically notes its ability to age gracefully.

Drink now–2035+.

I'd happily drink a bottle now and put several more away.

Why We Love It

This might be one of the most underrated wines in the Yarra Yering portfolio.

Think about what you're getting for $68.

A wine from one of Australia's great estates. 95 points from Halliday. Two major show trophies. Three gold medals. And a genuinely fascinating blend of Shiraz, Touriga Nacional and Tinta Cão.

But the most important thing is how interesting it is to drink.

It's floral, spicy, juicy, savoury and beautifully structured. There's enough familiar Shiraz character to make it immediately appealing, while the Portuguese varieties add an exotic dimension of violets, mulberry, aniseed and spice.

And when a $68 New Territories can beat Yarra Yering's own Dry Red No. 3 to a trophy, you know you're dealing with something special.

For anyone who loves Yarra Yering, cool-climate Shiraz or simply discovering something genuinely different, the 2023 New Territories is an absolute must-buy.

👉 95 Halliday + 96 Ray Jordan + Yarra Yering. For anyone looking beyond conventional Australian Shiraz, New Territories is a seriously exciting bottle.