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• Ayanami Likes this wine: 89 points

  December 24, 2023 - A pretty big, flavourful chardonnay. There's a lot of fruit here, trending towards tropical with melon undertones, and a fair whack of oak lending vanilla to the palate. Not overworked and is a well made wine, just lacking a bit of elegance.

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• forceberry wrote: 88 points

  November 7, 2022 - 100% Chardonnay sourced from five different vineyards in Wilyabrup, planted mainly (90%) to the Gingin clone and averaging 30 years old. The fruit is harvested in multiple tries, based on its degree of ripeness. Whole bunch pressed, fermented and aged for 12 months in French oak barriques. 13,5% alcohol.
  
  Quite pale yellow-green color. The nose is still surprisingly primary with candied fermentation aromas of pear and gummi bear candies, some crunchy notes of greencurrants, light vegetal notes of herbal spices, light steely mineral notes, a hint of greengage and a touch of exotic fruit. The wine is ripe, youthful and very fruit-forward on the palate with a moderately full body and slightly primary flavors of juicy citrus fruits and fresh apples, some steely mineral notes, a little bit of greengage, light candied notes of pear drops and gummi bear, oaky hints of nuttiness and toasty spices and a mineral touch of wet rocks. The high acidity lends good sense of balance and structure to the wine. The finish is lively, fresh and quite long with a clean and rather fruity aftertaste of steely minerality, some sweet tropical fruits, a little bit of stony minerality, light zesty citrus notes, a candied hint of gummi bear and a nutty touch of chopped almonds.
  
  A pleasant and balanced Margaret River Chardonnay that comes across as surprisingly primary and candied in character, considering the wine is already more than 6 years old. There's quite a bit of substance and intensity here, promising quite a bit of potential for future evolution, but at the moment the wine feels a bit too candied and fruit-driven for my taste, coming across as a crowdpleaser fruit bomb - despite its mineral overtones and good sense of zippy acidity. I honestly hope the wine would lose its exuberant, candied character with additional aging. The fruit intensity and sense of structure here was on par with some of the best wines we tasted in a tasting of a dozen Chardonnays, but the very estery, exuberant fruit character made the wine feel a bit banal in comparison with the more restrained, fine-tuned and complex bottlings. In our Western Australia tasting of 12 Chardonnays the wine gained a total of 4 points, making it finish on the 4th place.

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• VinCapitan wrote: 94 points

  February 26, 2021 - a cacophony of incredible chardonnay smells and flavours. Crushed cashew cream, white peach, licks of lemonade, struck match, grapefruit and yellow flowers. Lightly reductive. Talc like mouthfeel. Gentle, serious, spectacular

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• dnnk88 wrote: 91 points

  April 20, 2019 - Lemon, citrus aroma. Tasted dried apricots, lemon and tinge of lemon peel bitterness which was nice. Structured minerality. Fresh and easy drinking; not complex and slightly dry. Enjoyable now.

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• Alan Frazer Likes this wine: 95 points

  April 14, 2018 - "95+ Points. You could probably mount a case for Pierro making the best Chardonnay in Margaret River over the past few years, or at least one of the best

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• Vintage 2016
• Type White
• Producer Pierro
• Varietal Chardonnay
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Australia
• Region Western Australia
• SubRegion South West Australia
• Appellation Margaret River

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• In Cellars 111 (61%)
• Consumed 70 (39%)

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