2014 Rod Easthope Pinot Gris

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 89.7 points

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  12/14/2015 - RieslingFanatic wrote: 87 Points

  Certainly varietal. Nose that screams Gris, full of brown pears, cooking spices, red apple. Palate is a little different, green pears there but also a fair amount of citrus and finishing with a burst of grapefruit acidity. That said, the wine overall is in the fuller bodied camp (not by much) and, while well made and packed full of flavour, lacks, for my taste, the vibrancy and crispness I would like.

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  1/31/2015 - Callum's Corkers Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Hawkes Bay fruit. This guy used to make wine for Craggy Range.
  
  Slight onion skin colour, attractive. Hints of lychees on the nose, but it is not intense or complex. Simple, clean, correct Pinot Gris fruit: 'does what it says on the tin.'
  
  In the mouth it is medium body, clean simple wine, well made, nice fresh acid, lively, a nice acid lick at end. Off dry. Nice lemons and fruit, no almond complexity or fullness like, say, Mt Difficulty, it isn't in that class but neither is it in that price range, it is half the price at approx £9.00 British sterling. So, a bargain.
  
  Great value-for-money. Drink it now while it is fresh, it hasn't the complexity to develop hugely in the cellar, so why wait? It's good now. Will be buying again.

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