2011 Greywacke Pinot Gris

Community Tasting Notes (8) Avg Score: 88 points

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  11/28/2016 - AnonymousCoward Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Not something I drink often. This has great pear, apple and lime notes, with a solid acid line and a sweetish, honeyed finish. Opulent if I had to sum it up in a word

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  9/26/2015 - rmalloy wrote: 85 Points

  Cooked stone fruit with lemon custard. First impression is delicious. But the combination of creamy body, relatively high alcohol, high residual sugar, and low acidity gets tiresome quickly. The alcohol especially is really noticeable and distracting in this wine. I also don't like the dairy aromas, which one poster below likened to yogurt.
  
  Still, the attractive fruit flavors might make this popular with some wine drinkers.
  
  Below are the winemaker's tasting notes:
  
  Fruit from the Brancott Valley is wild yeast fermented in older oak to produce a rich, opulent rendition of New Zealand Pinot Gris. Concentrated aromatics of poached pear, quince and baking spices are followed by a palate of luscious stone fruit and mineral undertones.

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  12/13/2012 - MRichman wrote:

  Very interesting. Quite full, broad and complex for the varietal with a wild yeasty flavor, good body, and bright but weighty savory tones. A very good food wine.
  B/B-

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  11/8/2012 - MRichman wrote:

  Greywacke event with Kevin Judd and the New Plymouth Wine Tasting Club (New Plymouth Hotel): This wine was VERY popular around the room, although I didn't like it as much as other people did. Certainly was the most popular wine of the night. Smooth, silky, oily, generous texture. Quite dense and heavy for a Pinot Gris. A bit on the sweet side, broad, herbal and very complex. Certainly a-typical Pinot Gris, probably the most complex wine I've had from that grape. Interesting but a bit overdone in its style. Worth a try, in fact I bought a bottle to try again in the future. Not a wine for a light, breezy Pinot Gris drinker.
  B-

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  9/27/2012 - Dokken wrote: 86 Points

  Not my favourite Greywacke. Not much on the nose with unpleasant sour yoghurt notes along some stone fruit. Off-dry on palate with soft acidity that balances 10 g of sugars, full body and moderate finish. Kind of heavy and one-dimensional.

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