Fruit for the 2020 release of Yattarna – one of Australia’s great wines – comes from Tasmania and the Adelaide Hills. The style of Bin 144 has been edging ever leaner (as many of Australia’s Chardonnays have) – perhaps due is some regard to the Tasmanian component? A very pale green-gold in the glass. The perfume manages to be both fine and taut, and generously oaky at the same time. That smoky, toasty note is also in a nibble of reductivity on the nose and through into the palate, but the wine is clean and elegant once you get into it. Some lovely citrus and white-fleshed stonefruit, but with a nougat and baking spice element in layers of complexity. Driven by a line of minerally acidity towards a seamless finish of superb length. 97pts
Penfolds Bin 144 Yattarna Chardonnay 2020
