Yellow Tail Shiraz
The Nitty Gritty:
- Vintage: None
- Varietal: Shiraz
- Winery: Yellow Tail
- Region: Riverina
- Country: Australia
- Price: About $10
- Rating: 80/100
- Tags: good
Yellow Tail Shiraz is one of my all-time favorite picks for a best-value wine. I’ve never been disappointed with it, it’s always more than drinkable and a delight. This is a great wine to bring to a barbecue because it’s cheap, good, and most people are familiar with it and/or like it.
This shiraz embodies what I like most about a wine — spice — with an incredibly approachable style and smooth finish. It’s smooth enough to drink on its own, but would bring out the best in that juicy burger or barbecued chicken breast.
Yellow Tail Shiraz is also one of the most ubiquitous wines out there — you can almost always find it for under $10 a bottle.
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Lauren B. McNally is a communications consultant in Washington, D.C., who spends most of her free time exploring culinary and oenological pursuits with friends. She hails from Maine and graduated from Bowdoin College, completing additional study at the University of Cambridge in the U.K.(where she found the dining hall cuisine rather offensive and repulsive, as opposed to that of the top-ranked Bowdoin Dining Service). Her palate is ever-evolving but she includes California Zinfandels, Cotes du Rhone, and white wines from Burgundy and the Loire Valley among her current favorites. Her least favorite wine-related phrase: “I don’t like _.” Lauren also enjoys cooking Italian and French cuisine, and has an unnatural obsession with Gorgonzola and pancetta.
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