2022 Trinity Hill Pinot Gris, Hawkes Bay

Varietal and ripe fruit scented bouquet with aromas of pears and yellow apples, some spice and lees layers adding a complexity and detail. Off-dry with a note of sweetness and core fruit flavours of white fleshed fruits. There’s a gentle spice quality with a hint of ginger. Balanced, youthful, well made and ready with best drinking form 2022 through 2026.

91 points camdouglasms.com

Aromas of ripe pears, stone fruit and sweet, exotic spices are evident on the nose. The wine is rich and round in the mouth with excellent concentration of flavour balanced by refreshing acidity and a gently drying texture. Its opulent mouthfeel and richness make it a great drink to share with friends or enjoy with Asian inspired dishes or seafood.

he Woodstock Vineyard is a cooler, later-ripening site that allows grapes to develop maximum aroma and flavour while preserving natural acidity. The fruit was harvested when the balance between ripeness and freshness was deemed optimal.

Winemaking was strongly focused on enhancing the perfumed/spicy aromatics and delivering the balance and texture so crucial to good quality Pinot Gris. The fruit was given some skin contact before being gently pressed and the juice barrel fermented in old 500-litre French oak puncheons. A small amount of residual sugar was retained to balance the acidity and the wine bottled early to capture its youthfulness and vitality.