2025 Larry Cherubino The Yard Channybearup Pinot Gris, Pemberton

Larry Cherubino is an experienced winemaker of Italian heritage with roots firmly in place across Western Australia’s Great Southern, Pemberton and Margaret River wine regions. His extensive portfolio of wines spans a dozen or so labels, each offering a number of varieties or styles, and all delivering impressively consistent quality and value.

The Yard wines are a collection of single vineyard expressions with a focus on Frankland River and Pemberton, and act as a testing laboratory for future Cherubino tier of wines.

The grapes for this Pinot Gris were grown in the 1997 planted Channybearup vineyard in Pemberton, where the warm and dry 2025 season resulted in an early March harvest. The grapes were machine harvested in the cool hours of the morning, crushed, the juice settled in stainless steel and fermented with a combination of indigenous and neutral cultivated yeasts and bottled within months of the harvest.

Intensely fragrant, this Pinot Gris is all about freshness, with lively acidity and chalky texture a feature along with the light, fine flavours of pears and dried kitchen herbs.

Enjoy while young and fresh on its own, or pair with a spring vegetable tart or a poached chicken served with a crisp pear, mixed greens and walnut salad dressed in a bright lemon vinaigrette.