Penfolds Yattarna Chardonnay 2023
Tumbarumba
Australia, Australia
Regular price£630.00
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Arriving: Late 2025
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| Style: White | Packaging: OWC |
| ABV: 12.5% | Closure: Screw cap |
| Organic: | Drink from: 2023 |
| Biodynamic: | Drink to: 2038 |
| Grapes: 100% Chardonnay | |
Critic scores
97 RP, 97 JS, 96 JA, 96 DC, 19.5 MJ, 98 DB
Critic reviews
"The 2023 Yattarna Chardonnay hails from Tumbarumba, Adelaide Hills and Tasmania and leads with a restrained, composed and detailed display of fruit flavors and toasted spice complexity. This is a wine for the ages, one that shows well decades after release. I love the way this sits in the mouth, both weighty and waxy, with detail and levity as well. It has penetrating intensity without the heaviness of any one component. Texturally, the phenolic grip is chalky, with white flowers and fennel littered through the finish. 12.5% alcohol, sealed under screw cap."
Erin Larkin, July 2025, RobertParker.com
"This is an Australian classic and is atypical, being sourced from vineyards across the country. It comes from three regions: Tumbarumba, Adelaide Hills and Tasmania. Aromas of struck match, lemon confit, white nectarines and grapefruit. The palate has striking acidity, with a salty, minerally finish that leaves you salivating for minutes. An excellent release from a cool vintage. Drink or hold."
James Suckling, July 2025, JamesSuckling.com
"A curl of gunsmoke that brings you straight into the heart of a deftly handled reductive nose. Great quality, savoury, precise and pulled together, with a mouthwatering climb through the palate. Grapes from Tumbarumba, Adelaide Hills and Tasmania, ph3.12, 60% new oak. You can drink now but this is a wine with clear ageing potential."
Jane Anson, July 2025, JaneAnson.com
"Reminiscent of the focused, arrow-straight 2021 vintage, this is a blend of 65% Tumbarumba fruit joined by parcels from the Adelaide Hills and Tasmania. It's the 'reserved, pristine, exact' sibling to the 'funky and forward' Reserve Bin A, says Penfolds' chief winemaker Peter Gago, explaining that inoculated, not wild, yeast is used for Yattarna to retain that purity. This needs at least a year before broaching, with the toasty oak (eight months in 60% new and 40% one-year barrels) still integrating, but while shy at present, there's a concentrated, complex core of fruit stirring underneath. Bright lemon juice, grapefruit zest, fresh fig leaf, nougat and crunchy nectarine combine with cool, mossy wet stones and laser-sharp acidity in a beautifully elegant expression."
Georgina Hindle, June 2025, Decanter.com
"(100% Chardonnay; the fruit sourced from Tumbarumba, Tasmania and Adelaide Hills; pH 3.11; barrel fermented and aged for 8 months in French oak barrels, 44% of which were new; 12.5% alcohol). Melon, confit melon, 50 shades of lime and lemon, fresh ginger, a hint of ginger ale. A wine of great purity and precision. Wow! Fresh and lifted and with a very visceral and tactile sense of freshness. Dynamic and energetic. Vividly brilliant."
Colin Hay, August 2025, DrinksBusiness.com
Erin Larkin, July 2025, RobertParker.com
"This is an Australian classic and is atypical, being sourced from vineyards across the country. It comes from three regions: Tumbarumba, Adelaide Hills and Tasmania. Aromas of struck match, lemon confit, white nectarines and grapefruit. The palate has striking acidity, with a salty, minerally finish that leaves you salivating for minutes. An excellent release from a cool vintage. Drink or hold."
James Suckling, July 2025, JamesSuckling.com
"A curl of gunsmoke that brings you straight into the heart of a deftly handled reductive nose. Great quality, savoury, precise and pulled together, with a mouthwatering climb through the palate. Grapes from Tumbarumba, Adelaide Hills and Tasmania, ph3.12, 60% new oak. You can drink now but this is a wine with clear ageing potential."
Jane Anson, July 2025, JaneAnson.com
"Reminiscent of the focused, arrow-straight 2021 vintage, this is a blend of 65% Tumbarumba fruit joined by parcels from the Adelaide Hills and Tasmania. It's the 'reserved, pristine, exact' sibling to the 'funky and forward' Reserve Bin A, says Penfolds' chief winemaker Peter Gago, explaining that inoculated, not wild, yeast is used for Yattarna to retain that purity. This needs at least a year before broaching, with the toasty oak (eight months in 60% new and 40% one-year barrels) still integrating, but while shy at present, there's a concentrated, complex core of fruit stirring underneath. Bright lemon juice, grapefruit zest, fresh fig leaf, nougat and crunchy nectarine combine with cool, mossy wet stones and laser-sharp acidity in a beautifully elegant expression."
Georgina Hindle, June 2025, Decanter.com
"(100% Chardonnay; the fruit sourced from Tumbarumba, Tasmania and Adelaide Hills; pH 3.11; barrel fermented and aged for 8 months in French oak barrels, 44% of which were new; 12.5% alcohol). Melon, confit melon, 50 shades of lime and lemon, fresh ginger, a hint of ginger ale. A wine of great purity and precision. Wow! Fresh and lifted and with a very visceral and tactile sense of freshness. Dynamic and energetic. Vividly brilliant."
Colin Hay, August 2025, DrinksBusiness.com