Eight at the Gate Pinot Gris 2023
- 92
- $22
- Drink by: 2024-2026
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From Wrattonbully fruit, a single vineyard, there was a quick pressing to avoid picking up too much colour, though there is the merest hint of a pink blush, before tank fermentation to dryness. The nose offers an attractive mix of pears and tropical notes with melons and mangoes. A minerally backing with a lovely supple texture and impressive length. This has way more flavour than your average Pinot Gris, is cracking value, and will drink well over the next couple of 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.
