Tarras Vineyards Central Otago Pinot Gris 2025
- 92
- $50
- Drink by: 2026-2030
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New Zealand rarely does Grigio, it goes straight to Gris and this is a beaut, especially if you love your Gris ripe, rich and spice-filled with a warm umami-ness. It’s ripe, most definitely, with aromas of stone fruits, poached pear, apple, orange blossom and honeysuckle. It’s rich, hence its ability to pair up with equally weighty foods, especially involving chicken or pork. It’s spice-filled in between the stone fruits, apple and pear with a gentle spice and white musk. And that textural quality is smooth-as across the palate with just a touch of sweetness setting it off, finishing tangy and bright.
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.
