Allegiance Thomas James Tumbarumba Pinot Gris 2025
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- $35
- Drink by: 2025-2031
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A fresh Pinot Gris from the high altitude Tumbarumba region (the vineyard sitting around 530 metres above sea level), the fruit is from a single 5.5 hectare vineyard. Free run juice only, the wine spent three months on lees. The same vineyard provides fruit for the contrasting Emily Jane Pinot Gris. This is the more textural of the pair. Pale yellow in colour with that hint of grey/bronze we often see from the Pinot Gris grape. Quite intense aromas here, this is a serious step up for me. Notes of stewed pears, a flick of citrus, mandarins, florals and a hint of a minerally backing. The wine has excellent length and the intensity never wavers. It will provide excellent drinking over the next four to six years.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
