Powerfully intense with great length
Citrus flavours perfectly balanced with fruit sweetness & minerality on the palate
Pair with pan-fried Halibut steaks with served with a zesty salsa verde
Wairau River Marlborough Pinot Gris 2018
Wairau River Marlborough Pinot Gris 2018
Accolades
Awarded 90/100 Points & 4.5 Stars
Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, Oct 2018
Awarded 4 Stars
Cuisine
Awarded Silver Medal
Royal Easter Show
Description
"It is fresh and elegantly fragrant on the nose showing fresh pear, rockmelon, nectarine and apple blossom aromas, leading to a beautifully weighted palate that is juicy and rounded. The wine offers bright fruit flavours backed by refreshing acidity, making it very easy to enjoy" Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, Oct 2018
Lemon and lime as well as stonefruit characters dominate the palate. Fruit sweetness, acid are perfectly balanced with minerality on the palate. Powerfully intense with great length.
A late Indian Summer produced a very dry and settled growing season. Excellent weather was experienced over flowering which began at the beginning of December and lasted for around 10 days producing an even and balanced crop with a vibrant and healthy working canopy. Harvest began in the last week of March and concluded in the third week of April. Optimal acid balance and sugar ripeness was reached at an earlier physiological ripeness producing wines with elegance and poised. The dry hot summer and smaller berry size has seen an increase in concentration, producing some of the most elegant and distinctive wines of recent vintages.
Sourced from the Spring Creek, Home, The Angler and Crusher vineyards, grapes were harvested in the cool of the morning to retain vibrancy and focus. Gentle destemming was followed by cold maceration pre fermentation, with gentle hand plunging used during fermentation to extract colour and tannins. The skins were gently basket pressed, with the wine matured in French Oak barriques for 10 months, prior to blending and bottling.
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