Soft & luscious mouthfeel with lovely balance
Warm aromas of white peach, tinned pears & freshly-baked apple pie
Perfect with spicy Thai flavours or try scallops with bacon!
Lawson's Dry Hills Reserve Marlborough Pinot Gris 2018
Lawson's Dry Hills Reserve Marlborough Pinot Gris 2018
Accolades
Awarded Gold Medal
New Zealand Wine of the Year 2018
Awarded Silver Medal
New Zealand International Wine Show 2018
Description
Light straw in colour with aromas of white peach, tinned pears and freshly-baked apple pie. This is a dry wine but with a soft and luscious mouthfeel, nice weight and a touch of acidity on the finish that provides lovely balance. This wine sits very high on the drinkability scale!
A blend of the Waihopai Valley vineyard (70%) and the adjacent Barnsley Block. 2/15 clone, cane-pruned, shoot-thinned followed by successive fruit thinning to reduce crop level and ensure uniformity of ripeness. Soil is windblown loess over a clay pan. The clay soils play an important part by contributing volume and mouthfeel to the wine.
2018 was a relatively warm season that meant the grapes were picked early, harvesting both blocks on the 26th of March. The grapes were gently pressed and most of the free-run juice was inoculated with cultured yeast in tank. A small portion was fermented with wild yeasts (11%) while the pressings were fermented with wild yeasts in old French barriques (5%). Post-ferment, the wine was left to rest on lees for several months before the free-run and pressing portions were blended, left to marry and then bottled here at the winery.
Enjoy now or for the next three or so years.
Food Pairing: Spicy foods, especially Thai flavours, also pates and terrines, salmon, chicken and pork dishes. Scallops with bacon are great with this wine too!
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