Bin 09A
⏳ Drinking Window
2021 - 2025
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
roasted chicken, pan-seared scallops, creamy mushroom risotto
✨ Technical Specifications
Penfolds Reserve Bin A Chardonnay (with the '09A' designation representing the highly acclaimed 2009 vintage release of this series) is a benchmark cool-climate white wine that helped redefine modern Australian Chardonnay. Sourced entirely from the high-altitude, cool-climate vineyards of the Adelaide Hills, this wine represents a stylistic evolution toward restraint, elegance, and mineral tension. The grapes are hand-picked and whole-bunch pressed directly into French oak barriques for wild yeast fermentation. To build its signature complexity and creamy texture, the wine undergoes 100% malolactic fermentation alongside regular lees stirring, all while maintaining a precise, linear acid profile. This series has established a formidable reputation, showcasing how South Australian terroir can yield white wines of incredible sophistication and Burgundian-like complexity.
🍾 About the Producer
Founded in 1844 by Dr. Christopher Rawson Penfold and his wife Mary at the Magill Estate in South Australia, Penfolds is one of Australia's oldest and most iconic wine producers. The estate achieved legendary international acclaim during the 1950s under visionary chief winemaker Max Schubert, who created Penfolds Grange and revolutionized the country's winemaking techniques. Driven by a celebrated philosophy of multi-regional and multi-varietal blending, Penfolds sources exceptional fruit across historic Australian terroirs—such as the Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale, and Coonawarra—as well as select premier global regions. The house is universally revered for powerful, impeccably structured, and long-lived wines, led by its flagship Grange, Bin 707 Cabernet Sauvignon, and celebrated Bin series.
🍇 Grape Varieties
Chardonnay 100%
🍷 Alcohol By Volume (ABV)
12.5-13.5%