The Lane Vineyard Pinot Gris 2025
- 92
- $25
- Drink by: 2025-2029
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The lightest of blushes with a scent that raises images of quince, apple, dusty lemon, pear and spice. This is textbook Gris. It’s also textbook cool climate in style with a zingy acid freshness coupled to a smooth middle palate texture that brings an extra layer of umami and interest, guiding the wine to a sustained finish. This is a wine that relies on the quality of its fruit with just a simple cool fermentation in stainless steel. The palate tells the story in ginger and spice, quince paste and baked quince, apple and citrus with a lemon pastille brightness. And, what’s more, it’s all set to be enjoyed right now.
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.
