PenfoldsReserve Bin A Chardonnay 2009
About this product
- TypeChardonnay
- Size750mL
- RegionAdelaide Hills
- Current Vintage2009
- Standard Drinks7.4
- Alcohol Volume12.5%
- CountryAustralia
- StateSouth Australia
- Brand NamePenfolds
- Wine MakerKym Schroeter
- ClosureScrew Cap
- Wine SweetnessDry
5 Trophies - London International Wine Challenge 2011 (including Champion White Wine). 5 Gold - Decanter World Wine Awards 2012, London International Wine Challenge 2011 & 2012, Dan Murphy's National Wine Show 2011
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Andrew Caillard MW
Member of the Dan Murphy's Wine Panel and Master Of Wine (MW)
Vintage 2009
97 points
Move over Puligny! This brilliantly seductive and tightly focussed wine, derived from the "cool climate" Adelaide Hills, possesses all the hallmarks of great contemporary Australian chardonnay. It has a beautiful limpid translucent colour, gorgeous grapefruit/ camomile/ flint-stone aromas, fresh persistent grapefruit/ white peach/ flinty flavours, superb volume and mouth-watering/ piercing acidity. It finishes long and minerally. 2009 Bin 90A is a delicious wine with superb freshness and vinosity.
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Tyson Stelzer
Young Australian author and wine critic for tysonstelzer.com
Vintage 2009
97 points www.tysonstelzer.com
Such was the desperate purity of 08A that I never imagined it could be pulled off again in a back-to-back release. 09A is a tightrope act, balancing ultra finesse, honed structure, coiled-up tension and intricately focused minerality on one side with a maelstrom of wild, leesy, textural, solidsy action on the other. It gulps up its oak (small barrels, almost one-third new); full malolactic fermentation lends no broadness.
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