Saint Clair Vicar's Choice Marlborough Pinot Gris 2016

Description

Silky textured with baked pear crumble, vanilla, cinnamon and fresh stonefruit notes. The wine is off-dry, but has just a hint of sweetness and a long lingering finish. Fresh aromas of juicy pear combined with vanilla and sweet spice.

A perfect aperitif wine, or a great match with pork dishes.

Released ready to drink, this wine will be at its best over the next three or four years.

The fruit was harvested at optimum ripeness from a selection of vineyards in Marlborough’s Wairau and Awatere Valleys.  After pressing and cold settling the juice was fermented in stainless steel tanks at cool temperatures to enhance the purity of varietal flavours.  Texture was developed by regular lees stirring post fermentation. The individual batches were selected on quality then blended together before being balanced and stabilised for bottling.