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PenfoldsReserve Bin A Chardonnay 2018
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Distinctive Adelaide Hills Chardonnay persona.
Showcasing enhanced complexity and mouthfeel.
Matured for eight months in French oak.
Region: Adelaide Hills, South Australia.
Colour: Pale straw with a bright lemon rim.
Nose: Not the archetypical stone-fruited Bin A this vintage - to the fore: lemon curd, mandarin and nashi pear with a skerrick of shortbread and creamy custard-vanilla slice sans icing. Also noteworthy - a touch of spice (cardamom and caraway) and a subtle suggestion of ground almond.
This tasting's final impression signing off on a quartz-like minerality, and wet river-stone flintiness. Very much looking forward to evolution in the bottle...
Palate: Initially, an intriguing subtle (fluffy-pillowy) gentleness! Flavours of mandarin and yoghurt with a rich mid-palate. A glycerolic viscosity interlocks with the natural acidity inducing a mouth-watering juiciness and just a rasp of flint at the very end, adding length and zest. So youthful. All evident on the palate would indicate that this wine needs time!
Short-term - catalyse-accelerate via a decant. Or wait.
Adelaide Hills attired alternatively.
Oak: 8 months in French oak barriques (40% new).
Food Match: Crab warmed in kombu butter and basil.
Winemaker: Peter Gago, Chief Winemaker.
Drink Until: 2035.
Reserve Bin A Chardonnay has evolved into a wine that is now a distinctive, single-region style in its own right, with a contemporary and expressive Adelaide Hills chardonnay persona. Fruit is hand-picked into small bins and then whole-bunch pressed. A portion of the juice is incrementally filled to barrel directly from the press and allowed to undergo a natural fermentation, sans inoculation. Every new and seasoned French oak barrique is its own unique 225-litre ferment. Enhanced mouthfeel and complexity is achieved by fermenting and maturing on solids with sensitive, intermittent yeast lees stirring. 100% malolactic fermentation (all natural).
Showcasing enhanced complexity and mouthfeel.
Matured for eight months in French oak.
Region: Adelaide Hills, South Australia.
Colour: Pale straw with a bright lemon rim.
Nose: Not the archetypical stone-fruited Bin A this vintage - to the fore: lemon curd, mandarin and nashi pear with a skerrick of shortbread and creamy custard-vanilla slice sans icing. Also noteworthy - a touch of spice (cardamom and caraway) and a subtle suggestion of ground almond.
This tasting's final impression signing off on a quartz-like minerality, and wet river-stone flintiness. Very much looking forward to evolution in the bottle...
Palate: Initially, an intriguing subtle (fluffy-pillowy) gentleness! Flavours of mandarin and yoghurt with a rich mid-palate. A glycerolic viscosity interlocks with the natural acidity inducing a mouth-watering juiciness and just a rasp of flint at the very end, adding length and zest. So youthful. All evident on the palate would indicate that this wine needs time!
Short-term - catalyse-accelerate via a decant. Or wait.
Adelaide Hills attired alternatively.
Oak: 8 months in French oak barriques (40% new).
Food Match: Crab warmed in kombu butter and basil.
Winemaker: Peter Gago, Chief Winemaker.
Drink Until: 2035.
Reserve Bin A Chardonnay has evolved into a wine that is now a distinctive, single-region style in its own right, with a contemporary and expressive Adelaide Hills chardonnay persona. Fruit is hand-picked into small bins and then whole-bunch pressed. A portion of the juice is incrementally filled to barrel directly from the press and allowed to undergo a natural fermentation, sans inoculation. Every new and seasoned French oak barrique is its own unique 225-litre ferment. Enhanced mouthfeel and complexity is achieved by fermenting and maturing on solids with sensitive, intermittent yeast lees stirring. 100% malolactic fermentation (all natural).
Distinctive Adelaide Hills Chardonnay persona.
Showcasing enhanced complexity and mouthfeel.
Matured for eight months in French oak.
Region: Adelaide Hills, South Australia.
Colour: Pale straw with a bright lemon rim.
Nose: Not the archetypical stone-fruited Bin A this vintage - to the fore: lemon curd, mandarin and nashi pear with a skerrick of shortbread and creamy custard-vanilla slice sans icing. Also noteworthy - a touch of spice (cardamom and caraway) and a subtle suggestion of ground almond.
This tasting's final impression signing off on a quartz-like minerality, and wet river-stone flintiness. Very much looking forward to evolution in the bottle...
Palate: Initially, an intriguing subtle (fluffy-pillowy) gentleness! Flavours of mandarin and yoghurt with a rich mid-palate. A glycerolic viscosity interlocks with the natural acidity inducing a mouth-watering juiciness and just a rasp of flint at the very end, adding length and zest. So youthful. All evident on the palate would indicate that this wine needs time!
Short-term - catalyse-accelerate via a decant. Or wait.
Adelaide Hills attired alternatively.
Oak: 8 months in French oak barriques (40% new).
Food Match: Crab warmed in kombu butter and basil.
Winemaker: Peter Gago, Chief Winemaker.
Drink Until: 2035.
Reserve Bin A Chardonnay has evolved into a wine that is now a distinctive, single-region style in its own right, with a contemporary and expressive Adelaide Hills chardonnay persona. Fruit is hand-picked into small bins and then whole-bunch pressed. A portion of the juice is incrementally filled to barrel directly from the press and allowed to undergo a natural fermentation, sans inoculation. Every new and seasoned French oak barrique is its own unique 225-litre ferment. Enhanced mouthfeel and complexity is achieved by fermenting and maturing on solids with sensitive, intermittent yeast lees stirring. 100% malolactic fermentation (all natural).
Showcasing enhanced complexity and mouthfeel.
Matured for eight months in French oak.
Region: Adelaide Hills, South Australia.
Colour: Pale straw with a bright lemon rim.
Nose: Not the archetypical stone-fruited Bin A this vintage - to the fore: lemon curd, mandarin and nashi pear with a skerrick of shortbread and creamy custard-vanilla slice sans icing. Also noteworthy - a touch of spice (cardamom and caraway) and a subtle suggestion of ground almond.
This tasting's final impression signing off on a quartz-like minerality, and wet river-stone flintiness. Very much looking forward to evolution in the bottle...
Palate: Initially, an intriguing subtle (fluffy-pillowy) gentleness! Flavours of mandarin and yoghurt with a rich mid-palate. A glycerolic viscosity interlocks with the natural acidity inducing a mouth-watering juiciness and just a rasp of flint at the very end, adding length and zest. So youthful. All evident on the palate would indicate that this wine needs time!
Short-term - catalyse-accelerate via a decant. Or wait.
Adelaide Hills attired alternatively.
Oak: 8 months in French oak barriques (40% new).
Food Match: Crab warmed in kombu butter and basil.
Winemaker: Peter Gago, Chief Winemaker.
Drink Until: 2035.
Reserve Bin A Chardonnay has evolved into a wine that is now a distinctive, single-region style in its own right, with a contemporary and expressive Adelaide Hills chardonnay persona. Fruit is hand-picked into small bins and then whole-bunch pressed. A portion of the juice is incrementally filled to barrel directly from the press and allowed to undergo a natural fermentation, sans inoculation. Every new and seasoned French oak barrique is its own unique 225-litre ferment. Enhanced mouthfeel and complexity is achieved by fermenting and maturing on solids with sensitive, intermittent yeast lees stirring. 100% malolactic fermentation (all natural).
Medium bodied white wines have a lightly textured mouthfeel with moderate flavour impact. Often pale lemon coloured to pale gold.
- TypeChardonnay
- Size750ML
- RegionAdelaide Hills
- Current Vintage2018
- Standard Drinks7.7
- Alcohol Volume13%
- CountryAustralia
- StateSouth Australia
- Brand NamePenfolds
- Wine MakerPeter Gago
- Food MatchBlue Cheese
- Vegan Friendlyfalse
- ClosureScrew Cap
- Wine SweetnessChardonnay
- Wine BodyMedium Bodied
- Organicfalse
Vintage 2018
95 points MW
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Huon Hooke
Prolific Australian wine reviewer for Fairfax Media and The Real Review
Vintage 2018
92 points The Real Review
Light to very light yellow hue. Smoky sulfides and toasty oak-derived aromas, the wine is intense and fresh in the mouth, dry and long on the finish, with attractive balance and good fruit as well as balanced oak. It just needs time to come forward a little and develop more character. A very restrained, delicate style of Bin A. I'm sure it will build in the bottle, but it does seem more pared-back this year.
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