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Wine Description
The Story
Bin 311 is considered one of the very finest, best-value cool-climate Chardonnays in Australia. In the context of Penfolds’ Chardonnay, Bin 311 is to Yattarna as Bin 389 is to Grange. The wine is made from declassified parcels of A1-graded Chardonnay grapes that would otherwise go into Yattarna and matured in the same French oak barrels that previously held Yattarna.
Vintage 2020
The 2020 wine vintage in Australia was a highly challenging, historically small, but remarkably high-quality year that was heavily shaped by extreme environmental events. The growing season was defined by a severe multi-year drought, record-breaking summer heatwaves, and catastrophic bushfires that caused severe smoke taint across vulnerable pockets of regions like the Hunter Valley and the Adelaide Hills. Consequently, total national grape yi...