Wairau River Marlborough Pinot Gris 2022

Description

• Dry style
• Nashi pear & melon
• Apricot & florals
• Mouth-filling

"A wine of purity and elegance, offering Nashi pear, honeydew melon, apricot and rich floral aromas, it's finely textured and fleshy on the palate with succulent fruit intensity and beautifully pitched acidity, leading to a lingering satisfying finish. At its best: now to 2025" Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, Aug 2021

"Vibrant, aromatic, youthful and immediately engaging with lots of varietal fruit power and energy. Flavours include green skinned pear and quince, fresh red apple and suggestions of lime flower and lemon. Crisp and salivating with an abundance of texture and acidity, a light saline note and lengthy finish. A delicious wine ready for drinking from 2022 through 2025+" Cameron Douglas, Master Sommelier

The pure age of these vines give the wine texture and palate weight. It is rich, floral and fleshy with mouth-filling, pear, crisp apple and spice flavours.

After a lower yielding 2021 vintage, Marlborough was blessed with outstanding weather in December providing near perfect flowering conditions and a subsequent great fruit set. This translated into an increased number of berries per bunch, and helped offset the slightly lower than average bunch numbers which was a result of the cooler weather we experienced during flowering in 2020. The great weather conditions continued through January with above average daily temperatures and sunshine hours, punctuated by timely periods of rainfall. This ensured optimal soil water status giving great canopy development and health. Initally it looked like an early start to harvest but then we saw periods with cooler temperatures and increased rainfall in late January and early February. This slowed development and extended the ripening period with harvest commencing in the 3rd week of March and concluding at the end of April. The extended ripening period has lead to wines with great balance and poise ensuring some outstanding components to go into this years’ blends.

Harvested in the cool hours of the morning they were gently pressed and fermented in stainless steel vats. A small parcel was fermented and aged in older French oak to add texture and palate weight. After blending the wine was left to settle before bottling on the Wairau River Estate.