2023 Pierro Chardonnay

Regular price: $117.00 /BTL
Recommend Retail Price: RRP $123.90
Recommend Retail Price: $123.90
Sale price: $117.00
Regular price: $120.00

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Pierro doesn’t know how to make ordinary Chardonnay. This wine has been hailed as White Wine of the Year 2025, and for good reason.

Pierro’s delivering everything you’d expect from one of Margaret River’s finest. From 100% hand-picked fruit grown on their iconic high-density vineyards, this wine reflects decades of winemaking trials, trying to get the best out of each and every grape.

Expect vibrant aromas of white peach, juicy grapefruit, and a touch of butterscotch, with subtle oak spice.

Praised by critics, including 98 points from Ray Jordan, this vintage is destined to sit among Pierro’s best. While it’s drinking beautifully now, it will continue to evolve gracefully over the next decade. A true standout Aussie Chardonnay. Few Chardonnays in the country can rival its presence in the glass.

Technical Attributes

Critic Reviews

98 POINTS

Ray Jordan

This will sit alongside anything Peterkin has made in more than four decades as one of the finest winemakers in the region. It is a cracking good wine delivered with precision and power with a degree of delicacy and finesse that makes it so appealing. Incredible intensity on the nose with aromas of white peach and grapefruit with a little muted butterscotch in the background. The palate is powerful and drives with urgency through to a remarkably long finish. The oak is neatly interlaced, and the fresh acidity adds another dimension with its savoury chalky character. White Wine of the Year 2025

97 POINTS

Jane Faulkner - Halliday's Wine Companion

I’ve tried this quite a few times because I can’t get enough of it, as it’s the most detailed and finely tuned chardonnay from Pierro to date. It is beguiling, precise and elegant. All that is backed up by excellent fruit, integrated oak, a laser-light show of acidity with some creamy-nutty lees shimmying across the palate. And the finish – wow! Lingers long. Bravo.

96 POINTS

Campbell Mattinson - The Wine Front

Pierro Chardonnay be what Pierro Chardonnay be. But there’s a smidgen more finesse in this year’s release and, combined with Pierre’s trademark fruit power, the effect is quite the sensational. Pierro is one of the original (as in, it was the first) close-planted blocks in Margaret River, at 6000 vines per hectare. Power up front; finesse through the finish. This makes well and truly sure that it has your attention and then it shows that it has both depth, and style. Pears, yellow peaches, grilled nuts and a creamy, smoky, nougat character. There’s an element of quartz to this wine, or of something stony, and it’s a part of its glory. This is a noted wine in noteworthy form. It finishes long. It’s compelling throughout.

Tasting Notes

Winemakers Notes

Vintage 2023

A cold winter and spring followed by a mild dry summer resulting in a gentle, consistent ripening across all varieties. Vintage for this wine commenced on the 14th of February and completed on the 23rd of March after 9 seperate picks. Ray jordan has noted 'In the case of the '23s from WA, I don't think I have seen wines of so much vibrance, life and energy, with such expressive fruit' All of the fruit for the Pierro chardonnay is hand picked, chilled to five degrees and then bunch sorted by hand prior to whole bunch pressing using a sparkling press cycle. Fermented and matured in French oak barriques for 12 months (44% new) with fortnightly battonage.

Vineyard

Today there are five distinct blocks of Chardonnay on the property in Willyabrup, with the average vine age reaching 30 years. 90% of the Pierro Chardonnay is the Gin-Gin clone which has proven itself to produce the best quality wine and one that has been particularly successful in Margaret River. Each block features unique high-density narrow rows on rocky soil that slope down to the Willyabrup Brook and are orientated to the west and north. The vineyards are managed to maximise fruit, leaf and cane exposure to sunlight; minimise wind damage in the spring and to heighten flavour development in the summer ripening period.

Winemaking

Each parcel is hand-picked, chilled, hand-sorted and gently whole bunch pressed. There are multiple picks for this wine. With the first batches being picked for aromatic complexity and acidity and the latter picked for flavour and body. All juice is settled and then fermented in French barriques. The wine goes through a full malolactic fermentation which helps achieve superior texture, mouth feel and a more refined, persistent flavour. Lees are stirred fortnightly by hand in barrel over a period of 12 months prior to blending, settling and bottling. The result is a world class white which is well entrenched in the top Chardonnay’s of Australia.