Old Plains, "Fun House," S.E. Australia

100% Pinot Grigio



Fun-house Pinot Grigio; melon, white fruit, peach, and white flowers play across the nose and palate, making this bone-dry white crisp and delicious. Enjoy chilled in the summer, and come back in the winter.

Ponzi, Pinot Gris, Williamette, Oregon

Vanilla, mango and papaya notes are offset by strong green pear and floral aromatics. The mouth is full and broad with a refreshing hit of Meyer lemon.

Gio Cato Pinot Grigio

Appealing soft fruit aromas, in a style that is somewhere between light and medium weight, the wine offers refreshment. You get a peek into what’s happening in Slovenia. Good deal. Good wine comes from Slovenia. This small country is between southeastern Austria and northeastern Italy, places curious drinkers know as consistent sources of good wine. Primorska is the western slice of Slovenia. It is the nation’s most prosperous area, a bilingual region with flourishing viticulture and maritime commerce. Primorska has historical links to Italy: it was conquered and annexed by the Italians in 1918, then split between Italy and Yugoslavia after World War II. Sharing some characteristics with the best from Friuli and Venezia Giulia but also marked with a style that is distinctly Slovenian. Wines here tend to be riper, textural, made with larger barrels, and more exposure to natural yeast and oxygen. These characteristics have come to symbolize the growing Slovenian wine industry.

The Estate is right on the border between two worlds. Use of no herbicides in 10 hectares of vines. The wines are all fermented in French barrel, and show a ripeness both formed by proper farming and cellar technique, and by the estate’s proximity to the sea.

Lemelson, "Tikka's Run," Pinot Gris, Willamette, Oregon

Escapading aromas of nectarines, chamomile, lemons and chalk. When served slighty warmer than "fridge temp" ginger-crème brulee flavors emerge. Wide smooth textured pear and apple, tropical island and pineapple and lime compete for attention then a long, crescendoing finish.

Kathken Vineyards Pinot Gris; Willamette Valley, Oregon

Kathken Vineyards Pinot Gris; Willamette Valley, Oregon

 The Kathken Pinot Gris is a bright, fun wine with crisp and flirty flavor. It has a great tarty fruit balance that will dance aromas of gooseberry, citrus, and slight celery notes around your tongue. A warm welcome for spring, this will be perfect for a lazy day flying kites in the sunshine.
 

Bottle- $15.99

Laird Cold Creek Ranch Pinot Grigo

Hmm...

Being that the market is "soaked" with Gris and Grigio, it takes a lot to impress! This wine delivers intense apricot and bright Moros [blood orange] and focus that fruit into layers of coconut. One is to assume that since the wine is done in stainless steel they have enough acidity they can afford to lay the wine on the lees for an extended period.

Why spend the money?

Laird has 24,312 bottles produced of this wine while Santa Margherita Pinot Grigio sales reached some 8,5 million bottles in 2006.

This wine is also a single vineyard production which gives hands-on 

control with Cold Creek Ranch vineyard being a preeminent site 

for the production of both Pinot Grigio and Chardonnay.

Benton Lane Willamette Valley Pinot Gris

This wine explodes with apples and peaches! Tastes of a "southern garden" where honeysuckle and nectarines take pause then hurtle into titillating grapefruit.
A long and taunting finish that can be measured in minutes!

Only 5,042 cases made!