Steve Bird Gisborne Pinot Gris 2020

This is an exotic Pinot Gris with a beautiful pale straw colour. The bouquet has lovely layered perfumes of yellow stone fruits, pears, ripe peach, florals and spices. Bone-dry to taste, this has rich spiced-pear and floral flavours that sit on a soft, textured palate. There is great weight and perfectly balanced acidity that makes this wine instantly accessible.

Cameron Douglas Review

The vineyard is a combination of coarse silt and silt loams over clay sub soils. This region is warm by New Zealand standards and frequently has the highest annual sunshine hours. Vines are cane pruned and trained to VSP. We employ a high degree of leaf removal around the fruiting zone in the later part of the season it aid flavour development.

A brief period of skin contact is allowed followed by cool fermentation and an early bottling.

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