Aurum Organic Central Otago Pinot Gris Rosé 2019 $28
Here’s a cool thing that not many people know. The skins of pinot gris grapes are, when ripe, a sexy, dusky-rose pinky-grey colour, but because they’re separated from the juice in ‘normal’ pinot gris, you wouldn’t know it. Winemaker Lucie Lawrence decided it was time to let that colour shine in a new style of rosé, which let’s some of that colour ‘bleed’ from the skins to create a morganite-coloured wine that’s dry and spicy with a hint of apple and white pepper and reminds me of a Provençal style, which is a very cool thing.
