Pierro VR Chardonnay 2022
$180, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, Margaret River.
This is a fabulous bottle of chardonnay. Bugger me. It’s straw-green in colour, it’s loaded with flavour, it carries Unami notes as if they’re commonplace, and it goes for gold through the finish. It tastes of pears and cream, butter and lime-spider, pink peppercorn, bacon fat, brine and a flood of peach. It’s a gorgeous wine, hands down, for sure, no doubt. 97 points.
Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
