Penfolds Reserve Bin A Chardonnay
- White
- Australia
- Adelaide Hills
- Chardonnay
This record is a provisional match and may describe a different bottling.
- Tracked vintages
- 17
- Community notes
- 137
- Merchant offers
- 58
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 96/ 1002018 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 82/ 100137 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £49per 75 cl2019 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2023
- Drinking window
- 2014–2018past its window2012 · nearest vintage with a window
Flavour and structure
What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.
Structure from 143 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Australian Chardonnay.
- Body3.6 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.2 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Sweetness1.8 / 5
- DrySweet
- Oak · oak, butter, vanilla, caramel, cedar
- Tree fruit · peach, green apple, pear, apple, apricot
- Citrus · citrus, lemon, lime, grapefruit, pink grapefruit
- Earth · minerals, stone, flint, smoke, honey
- Ageing (non-oak) · toast, almond, nutty, brioche, biscuit
- Yeast and lees · cream, cheese, yeast, oil, curd
Grapes: Chardonnay. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
2008One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2019
Vintages
Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.
Every score below is a critic score.
- 2025unit not stated
- 2024unit not stated
- 2023unit not stated
- 2022unit not stated
- 2021unit not stated
- 2020unit not stated
- 2019£49 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2023
- 201896unit not stated
- 201796£47 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2024
- 201695£45 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2021
- 201597£34 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2019
- 2014£28 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2018
- 201391£35 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2019
- 201292£39 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2018
- 2008£24 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2015
- Past its windowits window has closed
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2015
- 97 / 100 from a critic
- Lowest price
- 2008
- £24 per 75 cl
Price by vintage
One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.
Solid: a realised in-bond trade
View as a table
| Vintage | Price / 75cl | Critic score | In drink window | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | £49 | — | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2023 |
| 2017 | £47 | 96.3 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2024 |
| 2016 | £45 | 95.3 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2021 |
| 2015 | £34 | 96.6 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2019 |
| 2014 | £28 | — | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2018 |
| 2013 | £35 | 91 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2019 |
| 2012 | £39 | 92 | No | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2018 |
| 2008 | £24 | — | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2015 |
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