Koonara Lucy and Alice Pinot Gris 2023
- 92
- $25
- Drink by: 2024-2028
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Love the little scale indicator for residual sugar on the back label. This is a dry Pinot Gris with a Pinot Grigio-like nose. The colour is not ghost-white, so I suppose some time on skins has been used. The zest of the ginger makes the first appearance; then it’s time for fragrant white pear, jasmine, and green apple. The palate speaks the Gris language more, with its texture, phenolic weight, and the poached apple with a sprinkle of cinnamon. A tale of two cities for a good wine.
Lisa Cardelli is an Italian-born wine professional who has been based in Melbourne since 2010. She worked as a sommelier in some of the city’s leading fine-dining restaurants for over ten years before leaving hospitality to become a wine sales representative. Lisa is now a journalist for Il Globo, the newspaper for Italians in Australia and around the world, where she also curates her own wine column. She continues to write about wine for both local and international publications and is on track to become one of the few prolific bilingual wine writers in Australia. A certified WSET Educator, she teaches at various venues across Melbourne. She also judges at local wine shows and for the prestigious Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards. Lisa was the recipient of the 2022 Wine Communicators of Australia award for Best Published Feature Article, a finalist for the same award in 2024, the recipient of the 2022 Sydney Royal Wine Professional Development Scholarship sponsored by the Len Evans Foundation, and one of twelve carefully selected Len Evans Scholars in 2024.
