SOUMAH Yarra Valley Hexham Vineyard Pinot Grigio 2025
- 91
- $35
- Drink by: 2026-2028
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Full blown skin contact delivers a salmon blush colour, but this is no Rosé. The decision to keep true to the grape’s actual skin colour and not remove it by fining is to be applauded. It also results in more flavour. Aromas of apple, citrus, pear with light spring flower florals. It’s dry, just the way Grigio should be, lightly creamy and nicely spiced. It could be argued that it is moving into Gris territory, but that lively acidity keeps it grigio and that length on the palate is super impressive. Finishes on a bright spicy note.
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.
