"Bright pale straw-yellow colour, a little lighter on the rim with green hues.  The nose is rich with fresh aromas of yellow stone fruits along with slight honeysuckle and lifted yellow floral notes.  The aromatics are taut and well-concentrated, revealing mineral elements in the glass.  Dry to taste and medium-full bodied, the palate has an elegant, concentrated core of white and yellow stone fruits with lifted florals and subtle notes of honeysuckle and minerals.  The mouthfeel is bright and lively with fresh, lacy acidity, and the wine flows with good energy along a soft line, leading to a light, crisp and dry finish of stone fruits and florals.  This is an elegantly concentrated dry Pinot Gris with stone fruit, floral and honeyed flavours on a bright, refreshing palate.  Match with seafood and poultry over the next 3 years.  Fruit from the company’s ‘Blind River’ vineyard cool-fermented in stainless-steel to 13.2% alc. and 7.9 g/L RS, the wine aged on lees for a short time." Raymond Chan, Dec 2017

"This immediately appealing and flavoursome, offering delectable fruit flavours of yellow stone fruit, mango and poached pear with subtle floral and spicy notes. The palate is succulent and mouthfilling, and displays lovely fruit weight and texture, elegantly structured by bright acidity. At its best: now to 2019" Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, Dec 2017

Colour is pale straw. The aroma shows intense pear and tropical fruit aromas. The palate is full, showing intense fruit, a fine structure with good minerality and a long clean dry finish. The wine’s texture is charactarised by the very clean mouthfeel and lingering flavours.

Mission’s Blind River vineyard possesses a special aspect with gentle slopes and soils comprising sandy loams, with a proportion of clay particles that overlay a gravel subsoil. They are soils that are naturally free draining and give good vine health but restricted vigour due to these stony sub soils. The blocks are planted over a series of elevations. The lower blocks are on flat land and the soils heavier and crop loads higher. As the elevation gets higher there is more slope and the soils poorer, the vines less vigorous producing lighter crops that produce wine with fantastic minerality. This wine produced off a middle block, had low crop load of 10 tonnes per hectare.

The fruit was lightly pressed with minimal skin contact. This wine was made from purely free run juice with a little soft pressings. It was fermented in stainless steel tanks at low temperature to retain the full varietal flavour in the fruit. The wine was aged on yeast lees for a short time, giving optimum balance and full mouth feel. Because of the good palate weight it has been bottled with only a small amount of residual sugar. Cellar carefully for up to five years.