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2022 Bin A Chardonnay
Australian Release

2022 Bin A Chardonnay

Sale price$100
/ 750 mL

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Due to state regulations, we’re only able to ship this wine to the following states: AK, CA, DC, FL, MA, MN, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NM, NV, OR, SC, TN, and WV.

Overview

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 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 (bâttonage). 100% malolactic fermentation (all natural).
2022 Bin A Chardonnay
2022 Bin A Chardonnay Sale price$100

Awards & Accolades

98

Erin Larkin

"The Reserve Bin Chardonnay is sourced exclusively from the Adelaide Hills, and the 2022 Reserve Bin A Chardonnay was again (as in 2021) the beneficiary of an excellent season. Matured for eight months in French oak (75% new), the wine here is creamy and saturated (drenched) in salted stone fruit flavor. This is another superstar release for this cuvée, and it illustrates the capacity for greatness in the Penfolds whites. The Chardonnays go through 100% malolactic fermentation and are inoculated with the Penfolds yeast isolate, and it is notoriously integrated, even at this early stage. It may seem an odd thing to note here, but I am struck by it every year. Powerhouse."

19/20

Matthew Jukes

"This is a much more serious wine than Bin 311, with a lot more volume of fruit and oak and a much larger flavour imprint on the palate. While it is bigger and louder, it isn’t any less graceful, and despite its dimensions, this is a stunningly weighted wine. The perfume is sensational, grand and resonant, setting the scene for the fruit notes that roll on for minutes. This lovely wine has not yet started to show its layers of flavour and will require a couple of years for the chrysalis to fracture and reveal the inevitable complexity of fruit within. Drink 2025 — 2035. 12.5% alc — 19 points"

2022 Bin A Chardonnay

Taste Description

PALATE

A powerful, complex and dynamic wine. The phenolics have plenty of depth and length. The palate has real drive, held together by a core of taught acidity. The mouthfeel has a lovely texture and weight. Stone fruits provide sweetness, white peach and nectarines. Old fashioned poached loquats in syrup. Almond meal and freshly sliced pear. Wet steel and river pebble minerality. The finish is long and memorable.

VINTAGE CONDITIONS

The 2022 Adelaide Hills vintage was celebrated for its long cool ripening and the absence of adverse outcomes from the forecast La Niña influence. The region enjoyed healthy winter rainfall and a relatively dry September which encouraged good canopy development and even budburst. Spring temperatures were generally cooler than average with October being the coldest in decades. A hailstorm on the 28th of October caused some crop loss. The cold weather delayed flowering and fruit set by several weeks, however yields were near average. Generally mild weather prevailed over summer and autumn, resulting in a long growing season and leisurely harvest. These conditions were very conducive to growing quality chardonnay with strong varietal characteristics and bracing natural acidity.