Wild Rock 'Sur Lie' Hawkes Bay Pinot Gris 2008

Wild Rock 'Sur Lie' Hawkes Bay Pinot Gris 2008A delicious wine from Craggy Range, the grapes sourced from the beautiful Heretaunga Plains of Hawkes Bay. Beautifully scented, with subtle but clean aromas of pear and spice; bright, juicy palate full of pear, citrus and lime fruit. Mouthfilling, rich, delicious and long. Really moreish in the glass, with lovely mouthfeel and texture, perhaps the result of allowing the wine to remain on the spent yeast lees after fermenting ('sur lie'). Expert

Their Estate wines are made from fruit grown on their family vineyard in the Upper Yarra Valley

cooler temperatures during the growing season and the relatively high humidity of South Gippsland

dark cherries and plums with dusty

Very good drinking

Drink 2005-2015

A year later he began planting the ten-acre property with vines and the first commercial vintage was released in 1988

youthful Cabernet at its finest

dried and fresh fruits and spicy pastry

The tannin here has the crackle of quality to it

We don’t need it to survive

The flavours fly through the mouth and yet there's more than enough weight/substance

though it's certainly a wine of vigor