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Awards, Ratings & Reviews
96/100 — Ray Jordan · 2021 Vintage
"The cooler 2021 vintage has contributed to a wine poised with silky refinement, reflecting both the season and the vineyard. It’s about 86% cabernet, with merlot, petit verdot and cabernet franc making up the balance. Over the years, I’ve tasted several of these, and this is one of the most stylish and elegant reserve wines from Pierro. The nose is highly perfumed, and the palate is beautifully restrained with lively red fruits that drive through to a long, thoroughly delightful finish. An excellent wine."
94/100 — Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front · 2021 Vintage · Tasted: Jul 2025
"This is an elegant, composed, structured red wine, built not only to age but to age beautifully. It's inherently complex but in an unforced way; it shows blackcurrant, mulberry, bay leaf and undergrowth characters, with cedar and smoked tobacco woven through; it flows juicily out through the finish, adding redcurrant to the repertoire as it goes."
94/100 — Erin Larkin, Robert Parker's Wine Advocate · 2021 Vintage
"The 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot Reserve is restrained and elegant, the fruit framed by woodsy spices and cedar notes from the élevage/time spent in oak. The tannins are ultra fine and powdery, and these linger long into the finish. This is very pretty and is more substantial than feels immediately apparent."
About This Wine
Grown in one of the best Margaret River vintages in a generation, the fruit comes from north-facing slopes on the Pierro property in Willyabrup. Each block features high-density narrow rows on rocky soil that slope down to the Willyabrup Brook.
All vines are mature, over 30 years old, low yielding, and pruned so the fruit rests close to the earth. All vineyard parcels are situated within 3km of the coast and are influenced by the maritime climate and fresh ocean sea breezes during the growing season.
This 10-barrel blend represents the best of Pierro's Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot from the oldest Cabernet vines on the property.
Producer Notes
A smooth, rich fullbodied red wine. With flavours of blackberry, mulberry, blackcurrant, plum and spice. Graceful and sophisticated fine tannins providing both incredible structure and length. Best served with Margaret River beef cooked over coals.
Specifications
- Vintage: 2021
- Grape Variety: Cabernet Sauvignon 86%, Merlot 7%, Cabernet Franc 6%, Malbec 1%
- Region: Margaret River / Western Australia / Australia
- Sweetness: Dry
- Fermentation: Fermented in open fermenters, plunged by hand three times per day, with a portion left to macerate for 30-40 days
- Maturation: 70% matured in new French oak for 18 months
- Production Attributes: Handpicked; hand sorted
- Vineyard / Geo info: North-facing slopes of the Pierro property in Willyabrup; rocky soil sloping down to Willyabrup Brook; mature vines over 30 years old; vineyard parcels within 3km of the coast
- Drinking Window: 2025-2036
