Red Hut Marlborough Pinot Gris 2025
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- $22
- Drink by: 2025-2029
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Pinot Gris from the Awatere Valley sub-district of Marlborough in New Zealand, the fruit was destemmed before a cool fermentation in stainless steel, with 10% in a large oak vat to assist with complexity and texture. Maturation was for two months on lees. Pale yellow/bronze in colour, this is a most aromatic example of the variety. Notes of crisp nashi pears are very much to the fore. Textbook Pinot Gris. There are notes of apples, citrus but especially those pears, all well supported by a minerally undertow. A fine line of acidity, the wine is medium length at best but should pick up a little more in the coming years. Enjoy the wine over the next two to four 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.
