Drank at bbq so a caveat that tasting conditions weren't ideal, this was disappointing though as it seemed surprisingly forward-matured with the acidity seeming rather flat. Flavourwise - default Chardonnay with some stonefruit and citrus and a bit of oak spice. Not bad but this is definitely sub-par if paying full RRP. Aging is something every Penfolds wine normally does well but I think this may already be in decline, will need to retaste in better conditions though.
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Très bon Chardonnay, produit de Tasmanie, 9 mois en fût de chêne, nez sur les fruits verts et pain cuit. Notes de conversion malolactique de pain, notes de beurre du chêne, belle acidité et trame minérale, fruits verts et jaunes, granny smith et poire jaune. Très agréable. Dégusté sur place chez Penfolds La Grande. $50/bouteille
Medium lemon. Lime, Nuts on the nose. Citrus, vanilla palate. Tasted quite Sauvignon blancish for a Chardonnay!! Quite pleasant wine, I will be interested to see how it evolves.
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The wine looks straw colored. The legs are fast. There is no sediment in the bottle. A nose of lemon, peach, almond and flint. It tastes like lemon, apricot, mineral, stoniness and phenolic. The body I feel is medium. The wine a zing and is fantastic on the palate. The wine finishes long. The wine has medium to high acidity.
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Excellent. Drank by mistake thinking I'd pulled out an older one but this drinks like a mature wine. 12.5% alc. Colour: pale straw Bouquet: delicate citrus notes with minerals and lanolin Palate: as bouquet, great minerality and mouth feels, vanilla, creamy, fullish flavoured but quite subtle nuances. Long clean finish with gentle acid. August 2021
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Underwhelming. Industrial. Trying to be a textbook version of a mid range new world Chardonnay. Which I guess it is, but was hoping for more personality. Began to crack up after a couple days even with vacu-vin in fridge. Would not buy again.
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Opened this wine at Tunglok Signatures (Orchard Rendezvous) with a very close ex-colleague to celebrate her birthday. We had foie gras with Peking duck skin, boiled lobster, deep-fried codfish, Iberico pork and beef.
Gold in colour, with an aromatic nose of vanilla, cream, lemon, wet rock, minerals with good intensity and acidity.
What I liked particularly about this wine is the balance between flavours and character; enough fruits to enjoy but not too much to be repulsive. A well-rounded wine that can be paired with a wide range of food items or on its own.
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The wine is pale lemon with a medium plus intensity youthful aromas of lemon, lime, pineapple, honeysuckle, wet stone, grapefruit. This is a dry wine with medium body and high alcohol and acidity. The wine has medium plus intensity primary flavors of lemon, lime, grapefruit, pineapple, and almond. The wine has a medium finish and is good quality. Drink now with potential for aging.
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Pale yellow. Medium+ bq w green apples,oak (burnt match!), roasted salted peanuts, minerals, white peaches. Firm attack w oak tannins, high acidity, but this is balanced with afruit. Medium aftertaste w lime zest bitterness. Not great, but very good. Ready to drink, will last longer.
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Penfolds dinner. Apero wine, sourced from 4 regions apparently, SA, NSW, Vic, Taz. I liked this Chardonnay as it is made in a Burgundian style with lemon zest, creamy but not too buttery as there is a nice lemon zest and mineralic touch to it as well. Solid
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Medium flavour intensity, medium finish. Some stone fruit notes of white peach with peach skin bitterness, creamy and flint. Good wine with decent quality but nothing exciting as well. No point to further cellar it. Nice to pair with cheese in a hot summer.
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Clear medium light yellow. Medium plus intensity. Lemon, brown butter, pear and wet stone. Dry intense lemon and brown butter flavours. The finish is textured and dry.
Very nice intense Chardonnay that never seems too ripe or overdone.
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Pære, røyk, popcorn, vanilje på nese. Smør, popcorn, røyk, urter, pærer, gule plommer og grønne epler i munn. Litt kremete, med tydelig fat, men bra syre. Grei lengde. Bra sak til prisen. 88
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Lemon, white stone fruit, orange, melon, sweetspice, tropical fruit on a pronounced nose. Pale lemon colour. Medium body, high pH and a trace of tannin too. Long length and fruit driven too. Nice balance, buttery soft ripe stone fruit on a pronounced palate. Really rather good, better on day two actually.
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Enjoyed this over the course of an evening. I was tempted to decant it but ended up just letting it breathe in the glass for 10 to 15 mins for each glass. Typically you get a bit of sulphur (as a previous reviewer commented) on a first sniff in my experience with Penfolds Chardonnay but that soon clears and the fruit kicks in. Peaches, pineapple and a whiff of lemon for me. Served at cellar temp (12 at the moment). A good long finish as well. This is my cup of tea but you have to be a little patient and allow it some air.
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Pop and pour. Lukt og smak av sitrus-zest, røde epler og honning melon, med tilleggs-smak av salt, kaldt meierismør, steinete mineralintet og vanilje. Konsentrert gull fuktighet, medium minus syre og lang ettersmak.
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Clear light yellow. A blast of sulfur starts things off, both the nose and the debate about adulterants. I love sulfur and am able to dig a little deeper, tropical fruit, stone fruit and then a great deal of lemon curd and vanilla poached pears. Very rich dry Chardonnay fruit flavours and a very textured finish.
Under screwcap and protected from premox by proper sulfur use.
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4/20/2024 - LopedeAguirre Likes this wine: 92 Points
Qatar Airways IAD - DOH business class. Excellently made Chardonnay, with hints of fragrant fruit and great balance. Very fine peach and nuts.
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10/4/2023 - colinscellar Likes this wine: 90 Points
Significantly better than previous bottle. Nice balance of lemon citrus and oak spice.
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9/16/2023 - colinscellar wrote: 87 Points
Drank at bbq so a caveat that tasting conditions weren't ideal, this was disappointing though as it seemed surprisingly forward-matured with the acidity seeming rather flat. Flavourwise - default Chardonnay with some stonefruit and citrus and a bit of oak spice. Not bad but this is definitely sub-par if paying full RRP.
Aging is something every Penfolds wine normally does well but I think this may already be in decline, will need to retaste in better conditions though.
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7/9/2023 - MatVino2014 Likes this wine: 89 Points
Très bon Chardonnay, produit de Tasmanie, 9 mois en fût de chêne, nez sur les fruits verts et pain cuit.
Notes de conversion malolactique de pain, notes de beurre du chêne, belle acidité et trame minérale, fruits verts et jaunes, granny smith et poire jaune. Très agréable. Dégusté sur place chez Penfolds La Grande. $50/bouteille
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7/18/2022 - foyfrcs Likes this wine: 87 Points
Medium lemon.
Lime, Nuts on the nose.
Citrus, vanilla palate.
Tasted quite Sauvignon blancish for a Chardonnay!!
Quite pleasant wine, I will be interested to see how it evolves.
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6/17/2022 - Moloko Likes this wine: 91 Points
Lots of struck match on nose. Grapefruit and cashew with a lemon acidity and a long finish. Quality
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5/28/2022 - Daffyd75 Likes this wine: 91 Points
The wine looks straw colored. The legs are fast. There is no sediment in the bottle. A nose of lemon, peach, almond and flint. It tastes like lemon, apricot, mineral, stoniness and phenolic. The body I feel is medium. The wine a zing and is fantastic on the palate. The wine finishes long. The wine has medium to high acidity.
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8/25/2021 - rmarkey Likes this wine: 95 Points
Excellent. Drank by mistake thinking I'd pulled out an older one but this drinks like a mature wine. 12.5% alc.
Colour: pale straw
Bouquet: delicate citrus notes with minerals and lanolin
Palate: as bouquet, great minerality and mouth feels, vanilla, creamy, fullish flavoured but quite subtle nuances. Long clean finish with gentle acid.
August 2021
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7/10/2021 - Old Wine Maven wrote:
Underwhelming. Industrial. Trying to be a textbook version of a mid range new world Chardonnay. Which I guess it is, but was hoping for more personality. Began to crack up after a couple days even with vacu-vin in fridge. Would not buy again.
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7/2/2021 - stayhappy21 wrote: 88 Points
Opened this wine at Tunglok Signatures (Orchard Rendezvous) with a very close ex-colleague to celebrate her birthday. We had foie gras with Peking duck skin, boiled lobster, deep-fried codfish, Iberico pork and beef.
Gold in colour, with an aromatic nose of vanilla, cream, lemon, wet rock, minerals with good intensity and acidity.
What I liked particularly about this wine is the balance between flavours and character; enough fruits to enjoy but not too much to be repulsive. A well-rounded wine that can be paired with a wide range of food items or on its own.
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5/13/2021 - beatles wrote: 91 Points
Elegant Burgundian style. Lemon zest, ceamy with butter in the foreground, hints of smoke. Better on day2&3.
#Kandestederne
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5/1/2021 - lewisrise wrote: 90 Points
The wine is pale lemon with a medium plus intensity youthful aromas of lemon, lime, pineapple, honeysuckle, wet stone, grapefruit. This is a dry wine with medium body and high alcohol and acidity. The wine has medium plus intensity primary flavors of lemon, lime, grapefruit, pineapple, and almond. The wine has a medium finish and is good quality. Drink now with potential for aging.
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3/5/2021 - Leto South wrote: 90 Points
Pale yellow. Medium+ bq w green apples,oak (burnt match!), roasted salted peanuts, minerals, white peaches. Firm attack w oak tannins, high acidity, but this is balanced with afruit. Medium aftertaste w lime zest bitterness. Not great, but very good. Ready to drink, will last longer.
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3/2/2021 - Collector1855 wrote: 92 Points
Penfolds dinner. Apero wine, sourced from 4 regions apparently, SA, NSW, Vic, Taz. I liked this Chardonnay as it is made in a Burgundian style with lemon zest, creamy but not too buttery as there is a nice lemon zest and mineralic touch to it as well. Solid
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1/28/2021 - JonathanNJ Likes this wine: 88 Points
Subtle, new world but not overpowering; good but not spectacular. Decent but not memorable
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1/22/2021 - Jason Wu Likes this wine: 88 Points
Medium flavour intensity, medium finish. Some stone fruit notes of white peach with peach skin bitterness, creamy and flint. Good wine with decent quality but nothing exciting as well. No point to further cellar it. Nice to pair with cheese in a hot summer.
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1/3/2021 - David J Cooper wrote: 92 Points
Clear medium light yellow. Medium plus intensity. Lemon, brown butter, pear and wet stone. Dry intense lemon and brown butter flavours. The finish is textured and dry.
Very nice intense Chardonnay that never seems too ripe or overdone.
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4/29/2020 - Nyrican wrote: 91 Points
Very nice wine on the mineral side of the range but still has the fruit and is pretty well balanced
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2/13/2020 - "Rhône Rider" Likes this wine: 88 Points
Pære, røyk, popcorn, vanilje på nese. Smør, popcorn, røyk, urter, pærer, gule plommer og grønne epler i munn. Litt kremete, med tydelig fat, men bra syre. Grei lengde. Bra sak til prisen. 88
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1/21/2020 - "Rhône Rider" Likes this wine: 89 Points
Frisk med grønne epler, sitrus, nøtter, røyk. Detaljert frisk medium lengde. Litt spinkel frukt. Treverke i avslutningen. 88-89 bra kjøp
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1/13/2020 - Head4Heights Likes this wine: 91 Points
Lemon, white stone fruit, orange, melon, sweetspice, tropical fruit on a pronounced nose. Pale lemon colour. Medium body, high pH and a trace of tannin too. Long length and fruit driven too. Nice balance, buttery soft ripe stone fruit on a pronounced palate. Really rather good, better on day two actually.
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12/17/2019 - Brentw1 Likes this wine: 91 Points
Enjoyed this over the course of an evening. I was tempted to decant it but ended up just letting it breathe in the glass for 10 to 15 mins for each glass. Typically you get a bit of sulphur (as a previous reviewer commented) on a first sniff in my experience with Penfolds Chardonnay but that soon clears and the fruit kicks in. Peaches, pineapple and a whiff of lemon for me. Served at cellar temp (12 at the moment). A good long finish as well. This is my cup of tea but you have to be a little patient and allow it some air.
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11/8/2019 - stayhappy21 wrote: 85 Points
Opened this wine during the organisation's annual Dinner and Dance.
Pale gold in colour with notes of white stone fruits, unripe pineapples, granny smith apples and chinese snow pear.
Fresh acidity and a strong finish.
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1/14/2019 - "Rhône Rider" Likes this wine: 90 Points
Nøtter, smør, eplefrukt, frisk, balansert, lang. Fokusert lang. Litt fet. 89-90
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1/2/2019 - Duvnäs Wine wrote: 88 Points
Not my cup of tea.
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12/13/2018 - ttholst wrote: 89 Points
Pop and pour. Lukt og smak av sitrus-zest, røde epler og honning melon, med tilleggs-smak av salt, kaldt meierismør, steinete mineralintet og vanilje. Konsentrert gull fuktighet, medium minus syre og lang ettersmak.
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12/4/2018 - David J Cooper wrote: 93 Points
Clear light yellow. A blast of sulfur starts things off, both the nose and the debate about adulterants. I love sulfur and am able to dig a little deeper, tropical fruit, stone fruit and then a great deal of lemon curd and vanilla poached pears. Very rich dry Chardonnay fruit flavours and a very textured finish.
Under screwcap and protected from premox by proper sulfur use.
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10/30/2018 - mooman Likes this wine: 91 Points
Pale straw, white flower nose, buttery, good mouth feel and balanced acid and fresh
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