2021 Penfolds - Bin 311 Chardonnay - Adelaide Hills

Decanter.com – 94 pts – DS: *'Baby Yattarna' is the big improver within the Penfolds white wine portfolio, now a blend of Adelaide Hills and Tasmania fruit. It’s lean and luscious, with lots of lemon pith and a squeeze of grapefruit in the puckery texture, and with absolutely no heft or unnecessary bulk in the palate. Just the right lick of oak binds the seams, while a disciplined acid line persists stubbornly, but correctly, to a distant finish.* - 06/2022

Falstaff Magazin – 92 pts – PM: *Helles Gelbgrün, Silberreflexe. Zarte Holzwürze, geröstete Ananas, frische Mango und Guaven, feiner Blütenhonig, Mandarinenzesten unterlegt. Mittlere Komplexität, weißer Apfel, feiner Gerbstoff, mineralisch-zitronig in Nachhall, ein facettenreicher, leichtfüßiger Speisenbegleiter. (jetzt – 2027).* - 07/2022

JancisRobinson.com – 16/20pts – RH: *Sourced from Adelaide Hills and Tasmania. Aged nine months in French oak barriques (38% new). Lean and light, less fruit intensity on the nose than recent vintages, from memory. Leesy texture, bright acid, fresh and savoury. More skeletal than fleshy.* - 07/2022

Vinous.com – 92 pts – AH: *The 2021 Bin 311 Chardonnay is very impressive and made with fruit from Adelaide Hills and Tumbarumba, potentially ist best vintage yet. It opens with a delicious core of vibrant, youthful fruits – grapefruit and nectarine – wit a deliciously smoky, cinnamon barrel edge topped by a savoury nougat complexity. Taut yet also generously fruited, a firm bolt of acidity helps to retain the focus for an array of citrus and melon flavours before driving through to a long silky finish. A benchmark Bin 311.* - 07/2022