The 2022 Chardonnay is rich and nutty, with a smooth/polished/glossy flow of fruit and phenolics that seem to rush across the palate as one. Refined and satisfying, the Pierro Chardonnay is infallibly consistent, and it's a remarkable wine year on year. This warm 2022 season yielded painfully little Chardonnay volumes in Margaret River, and perhaps even more annoyingly, the wines are really good, as this is. There are notes of salted pistachios, yellow peach, blonde tobacco, red apple skins, scratched citrus, caper brine... I love it. 14% alcohol, sealed under screw cap. -95pts, Erin Larkin, Wine Advocate

According to Pierro’s website, the music to play while tasting this wine is Delibes’ Flower duet from the opera Lakmé, described, in part, as “balanced perfectly with richness, depth and hidden power. Long lingering finish that leaves one feeling delightfully pensive and soothed.” Reads like a tasting note for the wine. Yet who sings the duet is important – my favourite recording is the incomparable Dame Joan Sutherland and Jane Berbié. Like the Dame, this wine is powerful, rich and precise. It’s full-bodied and layered with ripe stone fruit, nutty, creamy lees and spicy oak, and yet, the super-tight acid line seems to corral all those overt flavours into submission driving to a long, resounding finish while allowing moreish, savoury aspects to rise – lemon-lime freshness cleansing the palate. Impressive. -95pts, Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion