Pisoni Estate Pinot Noir 2022

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Pisoni Estate Pinot Noir 2022.

Pisoni Estate Pinot Noir 2022
14.1% alcohol, cork, Santa Lucia Highlands Monterey County USA.

The first word in my notes is, simply, “wow”. I wrote this not because of the fruit or even the complexity, but because of the linger of the finish. This really does extend appreciably through the finish. It’s all about the framework of tannin here, and the way this tannin takes the fruit-and-spice-and-rock flavours and says Come With Me. This wine is an example of tannin, acid and fruit as a buddy system. If you need specifics, it tastes of red cherry, red lciorice, crushed rocks and fistfuls of smoked, dried herbs. It’s the best wine of the 2022 Pisoni releases, and it is because of its structure and length. 96 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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