Brown Brothers Refreshingly Light Pinot Grigio 2020
- 88
- $20
- Drink by: 2021 - 2023
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Even when made as a deliberate low alcohol wine, it’s incredibly reassuring to see that pink-skinned grapes like pinot grigio get to retain their natural blush colour in the glass.
Some makers filter and fine away grigio/gris colour in the mistaken belief that drinkers don’t want to see it. They are also removing potential flavour. Here it is retained and it will be needed. As producers come to terms with the art of low alcohol winemaking – and it is an art – learning the little one percenters that will aid flavour is important.
Lovely expressive Victorian-sourced grigio aromas on display: dusty, earth, green apple, citrus aromas with honeysuckle. While still light in character it feels generous on the tongue with good depth of flavour.
That’s a win for low alcohol wines and for the grape variety. Looks like a winner, both sales and taste-wise.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
