Intense & concentrated flavours
Soft & balanced acidity with a fine, textural mouth-feel
Pair this delicious drop with Asian inspired dishes
Ceres Bannockburn Swansong Central Otago Pinot Gris 2017
Ceres Bannockburn Swansong Central Otago Pinot Gris 2017
Accolades
Awarded Gold Medal
Sommelier Wine Awards 2018
Awarded Gold Medal
Decanter Wine Awards 2019
Description
Some chalky minerals unfold with aeration. Dry to taste and medium-full bodied, the palate has intense and concentrated flavours of white stonefruits, acacia and exotic florals, along with nuances of honeysuckle. This has very good depth, and the mouthfeel follows a very fine, textural, phenolic line with soft and balanced acidity. The palate flows with good drive to a lingering finish. This is a tightly bound, exotic fruited dry Pinot Gris with palate weight and texture, and good drive.
With each vintage, the objective with the winemakers Pinot Gris is to achieve balance and harmony between; acid, sugar, pH, fruit flavours, aromas, alcohol, palate weight texture and phenolics. 2017 vintage was left on gross lees for 4 months and stirred weekly. Swansong vineyard is located on Felton Road, Bannockburn. It is a heavily terraced vineyard, planted in 2008. The soils are eroded gravels and clays with low fertility. The first year of production was 2011.
2017 was an interesting growing season to say the least. A wet warm spring enabled fantastic early growth with plenty of moisture in the soil to keep the vines happy. A marked changed occurred in December where temperatures dropped, and we entered one of the least memorable summers in recent history. Poor weather in December caused flowering to last up to 3 weeks which drove lower crop levels throughout Central Otago. A longer slower ripening period was thankfully finished off by some warmer periods in March which enabled everything to reach full ripeness.
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