Often described as Penfolds’ “White Grange”, Yattarna Bin 144 Chardonnay 2022 is a benchmark of ultra-fine Australian Chardonnay. Sourced from cool-climate vineyards across Tumbarumba, Tasmania and Adelaide Hills, the 2022 vintage combines concentrated citrus and white-fruit flavours with flinty minerality, subtle French oak and finely balanced acidity. Its remarkable precision, texture and length make it both compelling now and an excellent candidate for extended cellaring.

The Wine Advocate | RP 97+
Published: Jul 18, 2024
Drink: 2024-2042

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 | JS 97
Published: Jun 29, 2023

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 | D 96
Published: Jul 3, 2024
Drink: 2025-2044

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.

Jancis Robinson | JR 17
Published: Jun 11, 2025
Drink: 2025-2032

UC Davis I10V5 clones and Bernard 96 in Tumbarumba, Tasmania and Adelaide Hills. Average age – 30 years. Hand-picked, whole-bunch pressed, yeast culture used. Lees stirred in oak every 2 weeks for the 8 months in barrel – French oak barriques (44% new, 56% one year old). Approximately 90% went through malolactic conversion. 2 months in stainless steel prior to bottling. Crossflow filtered. TA 6.8 g/l, pH 3.11.
Creamy, oaky and lightly spiced from the oak, with the cool-climate fruit more citrus than pear. It is also a tiny bit herbal and floral, with melon-like sweetness to the fruit. Very youthful but already harmonious and ready to drink, even if it would benefit from longer bottle age. Extremely crisp and focused, pulling in tight on a long finish. Julia Harding MW

Penfolds.com

Launched in 1998 with the 1995 vintage, Yattarna is the result of one of the most comprehensive, focused and highly publicised wine development projects ever conducted in Australia. The aspiration and independence of mind across generations of Penfolds winemakers inspired the ambition to create a white wine that would set the standard for ultra-fine Australian Chardonnay. In all, there were 144 trial wines made before Yattarna was eventually launched. The allotment of “Bin 144” acknowledges this pioneering winemaking. By selectively sourcing only the finest Chardonnay grapes from cool-climate regions, Yattarna reflects Penfolds continued commitment to our original goal, to forge a white wine of exceptional quality. The very name “Yattarna” being drawn from an indigenous language, meaning ‘little by little, gradually’. Each new vintage invites the opportunity to further expand the boundaries of winemaking innovation, grape sourcing and our understanding of this noble varietal.

Technical Specs

Alcohol: 12.5%
Closure: Screw Cap
Grape Variety: 100% Chardonnay
Vineyard Regions: Tasmania, Tumbarumba and Adelaide Hills
Acidity: 6.8 g/L
pH: 3.11
Maturation: 8 months in French oak barriques, 44% new oak
Producer: Penfolds
Winemaker: Kym Schroeter
Region: South Australia, Australia
Country: Australia

Serving Temperature: 10–12°C
Decanting: No decanting required; allow the wine to open in the glass.
Food Pairing: Excellent with lobster, king prawns, roast chicken, grilled scallops, seafood risotto, roast pork and creamy mushroom dishes.