Penfolds Bin A Chardonnay

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Price
MYR 411.00

Description:

Volume : 750ml , ABV : 13.0%

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 regular yeast lees stirring. 100% malolactic fermentation (all natural).

TASTING NOTE

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.

SCORES

18.5+/20 Points - Matthew Jukes

96 Points - Nick Stock, jamessuckling.com

95 Points - Andrew Caillard MW

95 Points - Campbell Mattinson

94 Points - Angus Hughson

92 Points - Huon Hooke

92 Points - Joe Czerwinski, Robert Parker's Wine Advocate


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