"Pale gold. Slaty, flinty nectarine and grapefruit aromas with vanilla grilled nut notes. Supple and sweet with pink grapefruit, white apricot, nectarine fruits, fine slight al dente textures, attractive mid-palate creaminess/richness, underlying savoury and long fresh acidity. Still minerally and fresh. Drink now to 2038."  Penfolds Rewards of Patience tasting panel 2021 - 5/5 rating

"Hand-picked, wild fermentation and 100% mlf in French barriques (40% new). Easy to see how it swept all before it at the Sydney Wine Show '18, Superb gravitas, chiselled like a marble Roman statue. Amazing poise and length, acidity the key to the kingdom. Drink by 2027."  James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion - 98 points and Top 100 Wines of 2018 and Special Value Wine  ★ 

"In stasis.  Restrained, languid, classy, fine… This is a beauty.  There’s an ashy smoked character mid palate, the length draws out long past the fruit flavours… extremely tight and elegant… one for the ages.  It’s on another level. Tasted Jul 2020."  Erin Larkin, erinlarkin.com.au - 98 points

"Pale colour. Highly evocative wine with intense grapefruit, white apricot flinty aromas with grilled nut complexity. Generous and creamy with grapefruit, apricot, white peach stone fruit flavours, light marzipan, flinty notes and underlying savoury oak complexity; all intertwined with fine lacy textures, crisp acidity and superb mineral length. This is absolutely at the cutting edge of Australian Chardonnay. An exquisite balance of fruit definition, texture and mouthwatering freshness. Delicious wine. Move over Puligny. 98 points Drink Now – 2030."  Andrew Caillard MW - 98 points

"A cooler vintage for the Adelaide Hills and one that has delivered much in the way of high-quality chardonnay. This has a very striking nose of peaches, nectarines, grapefruit pith and beeswax with nicely played, hazelnut-flavored oak. The reduction is appealingly flinty and delivers direct complexity. The palate is briny with succulent peach, nectarine and biscuit flavors and an array of citrus at its core. There's a long, clear burst of fine, powerful fruit at the finish. An excellent vintage for this wine. Drink or hold."  Nick Stock, JamesSuckling.com – 97 points 

"A sublime chardonnay and a great example of modern Australian chardonnay: superfine, intense, crystal-purity and subtle complexity which is building gradually as the wine slowly matures. Cool-year style. Sheer magic.  Drink: 2021–2032."  Huon Hooke, The Real Review - 97 points

"Penfolds whites are kicking goals and none more than this delight which just scored the major trophies at the recent Royal Sydney Wine Show. Whole bunch-pressed, part natural ferment, and amazing 40 per cent new oak that just gets soaked up and now adds a delightfully sophisticated oak/cashew/flint set of characters to ripe, white stone fruits so typical of Hills chardonnay. A wine worth spending quality time over to reveal further exotic spices and delicate saline notes. Fabulous local hero chardonnay. Make the investment at least once."  Tony Love - 97 points

"Adelaide Hills. Superstar chardonnay. Eight months in oak, 40% new. It's a complex web we weave. Where the 311 is about dryness and length, this is about funk and flamboyance. It's dry too but it marshals a sizeable volume of flavour through the palate; this really sets the glass alight. Ginger, sulphides, white peach, oak spice, fabulous nectarine and toast. Undeniable quality.  Drink: 2019 - 2025."  Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front - 96 points