Wolf Blass Makers’ Project Pink Pinot Grigio 2019
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- Drink by: 2020 - 2023
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Some white grape varieties have pink skins. It’s just the way it is. Such is the case with pinot grigio/gris, a grape which is related to pinot noir.
For years, the majority of Australian winemakers have sought to deny any shade of pink from entering either their grigio (early picked) or gris (later picked) wines. It was a marketing decision, the feeling was that consumers wanted a white wine from a white grape variety.
The Wolf Blass Makers’ Project pinot grigio attempts to right the wrong done to the grape in the past – eliminating colour from wine involves processes which can also affect flavour – so expect quite a strong salmon pink colour to the wine. Using the free run, or the juice that runs before pressing starts, helps to deliver the colour and provides the second part of the project equation which is a crisp finish.
Aromas are delicately spiced and fragrant with confection, apple and ginger snap biscuit notes. The wine mixes grigio dryness with gris-like spice on the palate with apple and citrus sorbet notes. The finish is then clean and crisp. Mission accomplished.
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.
