The fruit for this wine is sourced from a neighbouring vineyard in Balnarring. The fruit was whole bunch pressed and fermentation commenced spontaneously with ambient yeasts in entirely old French oak barriques. Once dry, the wine was left sur lie for several months prior to bottling. The wine was bottled without fining and with minimal filtration.
The lively bouquet delivers an interesting mix of aromas of pink lady apples and spicier notes of musk and Turkish delight. The palate shows flavours of fresh white pear and apple juice that combine with a layered and textural mid-palate that is underpinned by spicy phenolics
One of the Mornington masters of pinot gris. Powerful style. It always is. The power comes from fruit. Stonefruit, spice, melon and honeysuckle. It’s good. Reliably so.
91 points Campbell Mattinson winefront.com.au
“Light rose-gold colour, typical of this grape; the aromas are dry-straw, dusty hay, and subtle dried rose petals. The wine is light and grapy in the mouth with a hints of honey and is probably not bone-dry. It has generous fruit and will have broad appeal”.