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James Halliday – 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.
About This Wine
The bouquet shows some intense cedary oak while the palate is tightly coiled, intense, wonderfully concentrated, with a fine line of bright natural acidity on a clean finish of significant length. There is a purity of fruit - especially grapefruit, white peach, white nectarine - tightness and power. The finish has that wonderful dry quality that is a hallmark of outstanding chardonnay. It will improve with impeccable cellaring: monitor its development and enjoy the journey.
Type | White Wine |
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Varietal(s) | Chardonnay |
Country | Australia |
Region | Margaret River |
Brand | Pierro |
Vintage | 2022 |