Penfolds

Yattarna Chardonnnay 2018

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  Vintage 2018
  96 points

Pale gold. Elegant style wine with high pitched nectarine, melon aromas with flinty complexity. Intense pure lime grapefruit nectarine flavours, fine looseknit al-dente/ chalky textures, lovely mid-palate richness, underlying savoury oak complexity and fresh persistent crunchy acidity. Expressive and pure fruited with superb vinosity and mineral length. Needs time to uncoil and further develop. Seal; screwcap 2022 – 2032 13% alc 96 points An austere yet voluminous Chardonnay where less is more. A highly individual and expressive wine that needs a few years to develop more complexity and richness. Judging by the recent Penfolds Rewards of Patience tastings, the wine promises a lot more with further bottle age. Tasmania, Tumbarumba, Adelaide Hills. Eight months in 60% new and 40% seasoned French oak barriques.

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  Vintage 2018
  97 points

So stylish, and just a little shy, at first. Time in the glass allows this seamless and serene beauty to unfurl, revealing layers of precise stonefruit, limes, ginger edged cumquat, oak derived spice and nuts, along with leesy complexity and taut minerality, all lifted by singing acidity to a crescendo of vinous enjoyment. Masterfully made.