Pisoni Lucia Estate Cuvée Pinot Noir 2022

Written By Campbell Mattinson

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

This was grown on the Pisoni Vineyard, Gary’s Vineyard and Soberanes Vineyard. It shows intense spice, noteworthy mineral, sage notes, some reductive infuences, black tea characters and a significant drive of dark cherry, the latter adding real bass to the wine’s general world of treble . Quartz like tannin adds more gravitas, as do meaty, smoky, charcuterie characters. What we have here is an imposing wine, with a future. 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 an independent 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, who is 100% independent, 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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