On Giants Shoulders Martinborough Pinot Gris 2022 $30 If rich, fleshy pinot gris is your jam then go grab the Molenberg and flick on the toaster buddy because tonight we feast! Crafted by ex-Dry River winemaker Wilco Lam at quite possibly the tiniest winery in the land (a teensy old shed, on the Porters’ Vineyard), … Read More
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Carrick Organic Bannockburn Pinot Gris 2020
Carrick Organic Bannockburn Pinot Gris 2020 $32 Paired with Annabel Langbein’s Lemongrasss Chilli Chicken NZ Herald Canvas Magazine 28th Oct 2023 If you like your pinot gris to have a teensy splash of sweetness, then prepare for all the grins to begin. I love the classic walnut and nashi niceness in this absolute belter from … Read More
Palliser Estate Martinborough Pinot Gris 2023
Palliser Estate Martinborough Pinot Gris 2023 $32 Golden in the glass and shiny-bright, it’s scented with soft, green pear, Golden Delicious apples and hints of nutmeg. In the mouth, it’s clean and fruity, dry with a hint of rich nashi and shows a good mid-palate texture, weight and length. Palliser Estate
Tarras Central Otago Pinot Gris 2022
Tarras Central Otago Pinot Gris 2022 $32 Erupting with spiced nashi notes on the nose and palate, this Central Otago stunner is super-fresh, super-rich and is a greatest hits album of flavour. So it’s basically Taylor Swift in a bottle. Made from fruit grown in the Alexandra sub-region and bursting with apple, pear and peachy … Read More
Zephyr Marlborough Pinot Gris 2023
Zephyr Marlborough Pinot Gris 2023 $24 Full, satisfying pinot gris from Zephyr’s Glover family, generously dry and creamy and flooded with poached pear, quince paste and gentle spices that soak across the nose and palate. It’s a classically-constructed style that’s beautifully balanced. Zephyr
Loveblock Organic Marlborough Pinot Gris 2022
Loveblock Organic Marlborough Pinot Gris 2022 $26.99 Paired with: Green Beans with Tarragon & Buttermilk in NZ Herald Canvas Magazine Sat 2nd March 2024 Now this wine has been out on the market for a while but it’s maturing really beautifully and the second I see anything with tarragon in it, my tastebuds immediately crave … Read More
Neudorf Tiritiri Nelson Pinot Gris 2023
Neudorf Tiritiri Nelson Pinot Gris 2023 $27 The Finn family has harnessed Nelson’s famously long sunshine hours to create a fully solar-powered winery, heavily geared around organic winegrowing and sustainable production and using only electric forklifts and vineyard vehicles. AND the wines are packaged in new, lightweight glass bottles to reduce their carbon footprint. Their … Read More
Decibel Giunta Hawke’s Bay Pinot Gris 2022
Decibel Giunta Hawke’s Bay Pinot Gris 2022 $24.99 If you’ve been hunting for a crunchy-crisp, spice-laced pinot gris that’s packed with fresh-cut pear and yellow apple complexity – then hang up your boots because you’ve stepped right on it. Dry, zesty-fresh and seriously juicy on the palate, it has great tension and lipsmacking textures. It’ll … Read More
Black Cottage Marlborough Pinot Gris 2023
Black Cottage Marlborough Pinot Gris 2023 $17-19 Shiny-new and saturated with Pacific Rose apple aromatics, freshly ground baking spices, racy acidity and showing some gum-tingling textures to boot. Nashi niceness washes across the mid-palate and extends into the finish which leaves behind a comet’s tail of minerality. Clean, vibrant and energetic. Black Cottage
Bendigo Hills Organic Central Otago Pinot Gris 2022
Bendigo Hills Organic Central Otago Pinot Gris 2022 $25 I love it when pinot gris comes packing some spice and perky acidity- so you can imagine my hand-clappy, jumpy, joy when I first tasted this new release from the fine folk at Rock Ferry who make Bendigo Hills. Delicously dry and showing quartzy minerality, this … Read More