Yattarna 2022 Penfolds

Classification	Cru Classe
Type	White
Brand	Penfolds
Vintage	2022
Country	Australia
Region	South Australia
Grape	Chardonnay
Volume	0,75
Condition	Perfect
Label	Perfect
Stock	18

Professional reviews

Robert Parker (97)

The 2022 Yattarna Chardonnay comprises fruit from Tumbarumba (61%), Tasmania (particularly Coal River Valley, 26%) and the balance from the Adelaide Hills. This wine ages slowly and gracefully, and I love it for that. The phenolics frame a powerful core of fruit that is at once streamlined and wide. It blankets the mouth and persists long after the wine is gone. At this stage, it feels inchoate in its development: tiny fish hooks of texture and a frisky sort of acid line both indicate that the wine has some time to go before it fully realizes its potential. This is forever the blue-chip investment in this collection for my taste, and there is a perpetually seamless cohesion of malolactic fermentation into the wine. The Yattarna is fully inoculated with estate-developed yeast strains, built in conjunction over time with the AWRI. It has 12.5% alcohol, a pH of 3.11 and 6.8 grams per liter of total acidity, and it matured for eight months in French barriques (44% new).

James Suckling (97)

There is a cooler aura to this, perhaps, than the other chardonnays. Spruce, nettle and lemon curd to camembert on the nose, shifting gears to stone fruit references and a glimpse of praline, cashew, pistachio and nougat at the core. A mid-weighted wine that wields an orb of reductive tension across a compact, immensely concentrated mid-palate, paradoxically giving an impression of calmness and levity. An excellent Yattarna. Drinkable now, but best from 2025.

Decanter (96)

There’s a seductive opulence to this big-bodied wine that sells the best assets of Chardonnay with aplomb. Sourced from the coolest regions of Tumbarumba in New South Wales, Tasmania and the Adelaide Hills, this premium cuvée is once again the product of clever fruit parcel selection, its bright, expressive aromas of nectarine blossom and jasmine are complemented by a sexy lick of lemon curd and a tight squeeze of grapefruit. There is magnificent balance to all the components, as complex textures and flavours unfurl, from brilliant white peach threaded with lime custard to a tingle of lemon sherbet at the end.

Vinous (95)

This multi-regional 2022 Chardonnay Yattarna is made with fruit from Tumbarumba, Tasmania and the Adelaide Hills. It delivers an impressive experience with layered aromas of grapefruit, pear and freshly squeezed citrus against a backdrop of marzipan and fine French oak. Fresh acidity punctuates an excellent volume of flavor, while savory barrel ferment and leesy complexity add delicious detail. Outstanding overall tension and vibrancy deliver a crystalline, focused finish of incredible length. A lovely wine in a finer rather than weighty style.