• Dry style
• Lime & citrus zest
• Fresh pineapple
• Honey blossom

"Light, fresh, dry pinot gris, with appealingly pure pear and subtle apple flavours. A subtle wine with good acidity adding freshness and helping drive a moderately lengthy finish. Good purity and an ethereal texture" Bob Campbell, Master of Wine, Real Review, Jan 2019

Pale lemon colour in the glass. This 2019 Pinot Gris is pleasingly refreshing. It is a genuinely classic Central Otago wine. The wine displays lifted notes of lime and citrus zest and sweet spice aromatics with notable hints of nectarine and honey blossom on the nose. The dry style Pinot Gris still displays an impressive fruit sweetness; it will fool your palate. It has only 2 grams of residual sugar per litre. Fresh pineapple acidity and unctuous texture make it a balanced wine with a mineral backbone. This Pinot Gris shows drive and persistence; you're sure to enjoy the long lingering, refreshing finish.

The Pinot Gris was hand harvested and selected during the last days of April and in Gibbston on May 1st. The wine was whole bunch pressed and fermented in both older oak barrels (15%) and stainless steel tanks. Indigenous yeast fermented the wine over three months to dryness. The wine then rested on its lees for five months to build up texture before being racked and filtered for clarification before bottling. The wine drinks beautifully now but will continue to age for 5-8 years.

Based in the Gibbston Valley, just 25 minutes from Queenstown, Denis Marshall was one of the ‘Pinot Pioneers’ of the region, purchasing land in 1995 and planting his first Pinot Noir vines in 2001. He and partner Ulrike Kurenbach, who grew up in Germany’s world-renowned Riesling country the Rhineland, both have a passion for premium quality wine. They returned to the vineyard to realise a shared dream and establish the Hawkshead brand after working in the UK. They are both totally involved in all aspects of viticulture, production and marketing, and now produce their wines from a range of the best vineyards in Central Otago.