Pale colour. Classic grapefruit, stone fruit grilled nut flinty aromas with marzipan/ vanilla notes. Beautifully balanced and layered with superb apricot, yellow peach, grapefruit flavours, underlying tonic water, grilled nut / marzipan/ vanilla marzipan notes, superb mid-palate viscosity and fresh lacy textures. Finishes minerally and long. One of the very best releases of this series. Exceptional.

Pale straw with the merest flash of green in the glass and aromas of juicy white peach, nectarine, lemon and grapefruit. Hints of distant struck match, oatmeal, almond paste, cinnamon, candle nut, cashewy oak, quince, macadamia butter and white flowers. A wonderfully pure release this year, although that is no great surprise with this wine. The aromas and flavours are nicely delineated. The wine's travel is textural and nicely focused, with a fine, saline mineral aspect to its acidity and a finish that carries on for a good time.

Penfolds Reserve Bin A Chardonnay has built an impressive track record – here. It’s a single region chardonnay from the Adelaide Hills. This 2024 release spent eight months in oak, 50% new. It all goes through malolactic fermentation, and a very small amount is fermented wild. Price is unchanged at $125 RRP.

This is a wine of elegance, flavour and length. Its style is immaculate, its complexity inlaid, its finish quite exquisitely long. This release, it’s worth noting, is flinty but not in an exaggerated or in-your-face sense, at all. It’s the destination of Reserve Bin A rather than the journey. It carries stonefruit, meal, sweet oak and spice notes, but everything feels like one long chorus, and a gorgeous one at that. This is a glorious Penfolds Reserve Bin Chardonnay.

Bright, bell-clear and light yellow colour; the bouquet superbly complex and layered with cashew, almond, white peach and creamy lees nuances, the palate super refined and restrained but at the same time intense, with gorgeous harmony and silken texture. Soft acidity. A very smart Reserve Bin A.

The 2024 Chardonnay Reseve Bin 24A has excellent fruit drive and purity of fruit, layers of focussex pinelime and praline to open, and tightly wound. Preserved lemon and grapfruit aromas to follow with some flinty notes, a sophiticatd and detailed chamelon. Tense and fine ober a legnthy sustained an chalky finish.