Penfolds Rawson's Retreat Chardonnay
| Vintage: | 2017 |
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| Description: | Tasting Notes\r\n\u200bCareful viticultural management practices in the growing season ensure that the winemakers receive fruit with elegance and finesse, with its natural acidity intact. Careful winemaking techniques are then employed to ensure that the resulting wine maintains the elegance and finesse from the vineyard, adding further complexity with lees stirring and oak maturation, which also provide balance and increased mouthfeel. Rawson\u2019s Retreat Chardonnay is made from carefully selected fruit grown across southeast Australia. It displays the expected Australian chardonnay characteristics of rockmelon and peach flavors, balanced with some pithy grapefruit notes, balancing the final wine perfectly. This wine has an uncommon level of complexity for an offering at this price point and is ideally matched to poultry dishes or seafood with a buttery sauce.\r\nAbout Penfolds Winery\r\nAfter the success of early sherries and fortified wines, founders Dr Christopher and Mary Penfold planted their vine cuttings they had carried on their voyage over to Australia. In 1844 the fledging vineyard was officially established as the Penfolds wine company at Magill Estate.\r\nAs the company grew, so too did Dr Penfold\u2019s medical reputation, leaving much of the running of the winery to Mary Penfold. Early forays into Clarets and Rieslings proved increasingly popular, and on Christopher\u2019s death in 1870, Mary assumed total responsibility for the winery. Mary\u2019s reign at the helm of Penfolds saw years of determination and endeavour.\r\nBy the time Mary Penfold retired in 1884 (ceding management to her daughter, Georgina) Penfolds was producing 1\/3 of all South Australia\u2019s wine. She\u2019d set an agenda that continues today, experimenting with new methods in wine production. By Mary\u2019s death in 1896, the Penfolds legacy was well on its way to fruition. By 1907, Penfolds had become South Australia\u2019s largest winery.\r\nn 1948, history was made again as Max Schubert became the company\u2019s first Chief Winemaker. A loyal company man and true innovator, Schubert would propel Penfolds onto the global stage with his experimentation of long-lasting wines - the creation of Penfolds Grange in the 1950s.\r\nIn 1959 (while Schubert was perfecting his Grange experiment in secret), the tradition of \u2018bin wines\u2019 began. The first, a Shiraz wine with the grapes of the company\u2019s own Barossa Valley vineyards was simply named after the storage area of the cellars where it is aged. And so Kalimna Bin 28 becomes the first official Penfolds Bin number wine.\r\nDespite great success, Penfolds never rests on its laurels. In 2012\u00a0Penfolds released its most innovative project to date - 12 handcrafted ampoules of the rare 2004 Kalimna Block Cabernet Sauvignon.\r\nTwo years later, Penfolds celebrated the 170th anniversary \u2013 having just picked up a perfect score of 100 for the 2008 Grange in two of the world\u2019s most influential wine magazines. |
| Price: | $ 11.99 |
| Price in original currency: | None |
Available from BASSER’S Fine Wine
| Address: |
6240 Coral Ridge Drive Coral Springs, FL 33076 United States |
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| Telephone (regular): | 954-840-3122 |
First added to 1000 Corks on August 23, 2020.
