Pinot Gris

The grapes for this wine were generously donated by our friends and supporters among Marlborough’s grape growers.

Flavours & Aromas
This is an elegant and delicious style of Pinot Gris, with aromas and flavours of pear, citrus blossom and stone fruit. It is mouth-filling and complex, with a hint of residual sugar perfectly balancing the fresh acidity.

Season
The 2023 growing season started cool, with higher-than-average rainfall. Prayers to the weather gods were eventually answered, bringing warm dry days and cool nights to allow for perfect ripening and harvest conditions.

Vineyards
The grapes for this wine were grown on two vineyards running along both sides of the Awatere River, each with a long history of producing high quality Pinot Gris. The unique combination of geography and climate in both vineyards produces wines with great complexity and pure expression of variety and place.

Winemaking
The grapes were harvested in the cool of the morning and processed as quickly and gently as possible to avoid colour and tannin pick up from the pink Pinot Gris berries. The juice was settled bright, before fermentation. Post ferment, the finished wine was left on its yeast lees
for an extended period to build texture and complexity, before being gently filtered for bottling.

pH: 3.59

TA: 5.8g/l

RS: 8.04g/l

Food Pairing
Pulled pork tacos with a pear and apple slaw.

Review

Beautifully fruited and elegantly fragrant, the wine shows poached pear, Gala apple, apricot and jasmine aromas, followed by a fruit-forward palate that’s juicy and rounded. It’s smooth and lingering with youthful fruit flavours. At its best: now to 2026. 91/100 Wine Orbit – Nov 2023

Tangy pinot gris with slightly green apricot, pear and green apple flavours. juicy wine with good sweet/sour tension. All profits from this wine go to the Graeme Dingle Foundation. Bob Campbell Real Review – JAN 2024