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 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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