Penfolds Bin 311 Chardonnay 2006 Saturday, Mar 3 2007
Tasting Notes and Australia and Tumbarumba and Variety and White and chardonnay
Oh I like this. I thought the inaugural vintage was pretty good but this one really hits the bullseye. It is matured for eight months in one, two and three year old French oak. This is a very fine example of new school Australian chardonnay.
Aromas of honeydew melon, lemon and almond meal with dusty cinnamon and vanilla flecked oak. It also shows some lavender like perfume and a little matchsticky barrel ferment complexity. On the palate fine and tight with flavours of lemon rind, grapefruit, melon, vanilla spice and attractive slightly dirty earthy flavours. Flinty and bone dry finishing with a mouthful of pebbles, citrus and ginger spice. Beautiful wine.
Rated : 93 Points
Tasted : Mar07
Alcohol : 13.5%
Price : $40
Closure : Screwcap
Drink : 2007 - 2012
Source : Winery Sample
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3 Responses to “Penfolds Bin 311 Chardonnay 2006”
March 3rd, 2007 at 6:05 pm
Looks like your sample showed a little tighter than the one I saw at Stew’s this morning. Nonetheless I agree, this is one nice wine, interesting where the reds were IMO predicatble, and worth buying, particularly discounted well below $40,
March 3rd, 2007 at 6:17 pm
I am doing the reds this weekend. Kalimna and 407 up next I think. This was pretty tight.
GW
March 4th, 2007 at 8:04 pm
So they’ve stuck with Tumbarumba for the 06. I heard last year that with the 311 introduced into the stable it wasn’t always going to be Tumba fruit…they’d cast their gaze to wherever they needed to in order to get the right quality.