Pisoni Estate Chardonnay 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Pisoni Estate Chardonnay 2023.

Pisoni Estate Chardonnay 2023
14.1% alcohol, cork, Monterey County USA (Santa Lucia Highlands).

Acidity is the fibre-optic cable of wine; it conveys all you need to know about the land and the variety and the climate the wine was grown in. This wine is the perfect example of this notion; the acidity itself is run with sweet fruit flavour, the palate kept fresh at all times, the flavour tending towards richness without pushing too hard. It’s a powerful wine, cut with quartz, layered with cream and honey, and driven by pure exquisite peach. Oak plays a role but in a taut, controlled context. This wine is excellent now but will improve. 94+ points.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been a respected wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. 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 prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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