

This wine exhibits intense perfumed aromas of fresh ripe pear with hints of gentle spice. It has a textural palate showing baked apple, almond and cinnamon characters, followed by a balanced drying acidity creating a lengthy and harmonious finish.
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Tasting Notes
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Our Cellar Selection Pinot Gris 2022 has savoury aromatics such as the baking spices, clove and cinnamon. The palate has rich fruit flavours of ripe pears, nectarine and orange zest intermingled with roasted almonds. This wine offers a complex creamy texture with delicate refreshing acidity on the finish.
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Food Pairing
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Enjoy chilled with antipasto platter. Suitable for plant-based diets.
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Vineyards and Winemaking
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The fruit for this wine is sourced from vineyards in both the Wairau and Awatere Valleys of Marlborough. Fruit is harvested in cool night-time temperatures to enhance aromatics, then fermented with aromatic and textural yeast strains. The wine matures on its yeast lees for a closely monitored period of time to develop a complex creamy texture, before blending, finishing and bottling whilst still youthful to enhance freshness
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Soils And Viticulture
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The Marlborough growing season started off well with very little frost pressure during spring. Flowering went without a glitch, due healthy soil moisture levels the canopies looked lush and vibrant. The start of 2022 summer was slightly colder; February was below the long-term average in temperature however the weather settled with a slightly damp autumn.
Highly fragrant, this full-bodied, finely textured wine has generous, well-ripened pear and peach flavours and a smooth, slightly sweet, very harmonious finish. Drink now or cellar.
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