Mitchell Wines Pinot Gris 2021
- 90
- $25
- Drink by: 2021-2024
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This is the first release of a Pinot Gris from Mitchell and what a fine way to start. Selecting the 2021 vintage as the inaugural release is clever. The grapes, from a north-east facing vineyard in the Penwortham Hills of the Clare Valley, are whole bunch pressed and then aged in a 3,000 litre foudre.
Green yellow in colour, there is good intensity of flavour right through. While there are notable touches of pears as you would expect from Pinot Gris, for me, this is more crisp green apples. The oak is unobtrusive but binds the wine nicely. Floral notes intrude, in the nicest way, throughout. Underneath is a solid foundation of minerality. A wine of decent length which will drink beautifully over the next two to three years, perhaps longer.
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.
