Marlborough Pinot Gris
The perfect plus-one for Asian dishes, roast chicken and light pastas.
Tasting notes
Our Babydoll Pinot Gris is showing wonderful fruit concentration, with underlying purity and minerality.
| Bouquet: | White peach and orange blossom, with notes of delicate ginger and spice. |
| Palate: | Full flavours of pear and honey suckle are well balanced with fruit sweetness and acidity. |
| Food Match: | Ideal with Asian stir-fry, grilled shrimp, and fresh salads with citrus dressings. |
| Dietary Information: | Suitable for vegetarians, vegans and a gluten free diet. |
| Cellaring Recommendation: | Enjoy now, or cellar up to 2 years. |
Vintage Summary
Vintage 2024 was another one for the history books, with a hot, dry summer and low rainfall impacting the Marlborough region. Its a year that can be celebrated for its outstanding quality. Several factors contributed to lower yields, with early spring frosts, cooler temperatures during flowering, and prolonged dry conditions and water restrictions throughout summer and the harvest period. The unique seasonal conditions of vintage 2024 have produced wines of exceptional quality and showing the wonderful hallmarks that our Marlborough vineyards are known for – highly concentrated flavours, with underlying purity and minerality. We are excited to share them with the world.
Winemaking
Carefully selected parcels of Pinot Gris from our Awatere and Wairau Valley vineyards were used to craft this wine. At the winery, individual parcels of fruit were gently pressed and clarified. The clear juice was then fermented separately using a range of selected yeasts. A long, cool fermentation in stainless steel tanks retained the vibrant, fresh characters. After fermentation the wine was blended, stabilised, and filtered in preparation for bottling.
| Winemaker: | Natalie Christensen |
| Harvest Date: | 18th March – 24th March 2024 |
| Vineyard: | Marlborough |
| Alcohol: | 13% |
| Residual sugar: | 4 g/I |
| pH: | 3.28 |
| TA: | 6.61 |
