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2008 Penfolds Reserve BIN 08A Chardonnay

Adelaide Hills, South Australia, AUSTRALIA
$99. 99
Bottle
$1199.88 Dozen
ABV: 13%
Closure: Screw Cap

From its early releases Reserve Bin A was often assembled from the full-bodied, experimental components deemed unsuitable for the Yattarna style. However, with Reserve Bin A, Senior White Winemaker Kym Schroeter has enjoyed more freedom to explore chardonnay’s stylistic boundaries, generally producing a more forward style of wine with a different expression to that of Yattarna.

Since its first vintage in 1994, Reserve Bin A has been sourced purely from Adelaide Hills fruit, from up to 80 vineyards and produced only when conditions are perfect. Reserve Bin A is notable for intense, elegant fruit flavours and distinctive complexity. Individual, fine-grained, French oak barrels have been selected for perfect integration, complexity, and fruit expression, producing an unmistakably rich wine.

Other reviews... Penfolds Reserve Bin 08A Chardonnay is so far ahead of the pack that when it cleaned up every other Chardonnay to win three trophies – and then every other variety to win the best wine of show – at the National Wine Show last year I knew precisely what it was long before it was announced. This wine nails that precarious balance between desperate purity, nervy acidity and pristine minerality on one side, and on the other, gorgeous complexity of roast nuts, white peach and grapefruit blossom. 97 points Tyson Stelzer, www.clearaboutwine.com.ausize>

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