Penfolds Bin 311 Chardonnay 2024
- 92
- $55
- Drink by: 2025-2031
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The fruit for this fine release of Bin 311 is sourced from vineyards in the Adelaide Hills, Tasmania and Tumbarumba. 2024 was considered a good vintage in all three regions, especially Tumbarumba. Maturation was for a year and a half in French oak barriques, 18% of them new. Straw yellow in colour, a slightly leaner style than some, but clean, fresh, bright and inevitably youthful. Notes of lemon, there is even a hint of pineapple, with spices and a very gentle touch of oak. Appealing fragrances lead to an enticing palate with a move to stone fruits and florals, and a flick of ginger. A few years will see it build to advantage. A wine of medium length with good lemony acidity running the journey. Enjoy over the next three to six years.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
