Penfolds Reserve Bin A Chardonnay 2024
- 93
- $125
- Drink by: 2025-2037
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A perfectly poised Adelaide Hills Chardonnay as refined as you might expect and driven by fine-edged acidity reflecting its cooler origins and vintage. Nectarine, white peach, ripe stone fruits and citrus aromas. A wine of line and length with bright, tangy acidity in charge and filled with subtle notes of creamy nuttiness and peach custard amid flavours of green apples, citrus, grapefruit and quince. It’s coiled and tight and promises a slow release of complexity over time. There is some sensitive winemaking employed here with eight months in French oak barriques (50% new) and it’s welcomed in allowing the fruit to reveal its inner beauty.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
