Penfolds Yattarna Chardonnay 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Penfolds Yattarna Chardonnay 2024.

Penfolds Yattarna Chardonnay 2024
A$220, 12.5% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills/Tasmania/Tumbarumba.

As stated in [Penfolds Collection 2026: Ten Things You Should Know]. Yattarna Chardonnay is the Penfolds wine that has increased in price the most over the past six releases, in percentage terms. The Penfolds range has largely been static price-wise in recent years; Yattarna lifted (in the 2024 Collection, for the 2022 vintage) $45, or 25.7%. It’s been $220 since. What any wine is “worth” is a complex debate, but – outside of Grange – Penfolds Yattarna Chardonnay is as worthy of a premium as any in the Penfolds range. Yattarna Chardonnay now has a stellar history of releases.

Penfolds Yattarna Chardonnay 2024 was matured for eight months in French oak barriques (56% new, 24% one-year-old).

Yattarna this year brings flint, white peach, cedarwood, hay, oatmeal, lemonade and mineral characters in refined but substantial measure. This is a wine. It’s so neat, so wild, so powerful and so refined, with finesse as a finishing act. The word Yattarna means “little by little, gradually” and that’s exactly how this wine will evolve; and majestically so. But even as a young wine, this is as complete a chardonnay as you could hope to encounter.

97 points – Campbell Mattinson.

See also [Penfolds Yattarna Chardonnay 2011 Review: Fourteen Years On]
See also [Penfolds Yattarna Reviews on The Winefront 1998–Current]

Campbell Mattinson

This post was written by Campbell Mattinson. Mattinson is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of The Winefront business. He is the author of five books on wine – four of which were bestsellers (The Wine Hunter, the Big Red Wine Book 2008, the Big Red Wine Book 2009, and the Big Red Wine Book 2010).

Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the national Best Australian Sports Writing Award. In 2026 three of his photographs were short-listed for the World Food Photography Awards.

Campbell Mattinson, who is 100% independent, has tasted between 5000 and 10,000 wines each and every year for the past 25 years. He tastes blind, in comparative brackets, as often as is practicable.

Campbell Mattinson is a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker and a wine critic. In all of these mediums his prime motive is to tell people's stories.

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