Jules Taylor Pinot Gris

Origin: New Zealand
Terroir: Marlborough

Winemakers Notes
For me, it’s a grape where you can use different techniques and methods each year, evolving the techniques and trying something a little different. The pleasure is in the not knowing what each vintage is going to bring.

Aroma & Flavour
This wine is bright straw yellow with notes of pear, white and yellow stone fruits initially express themselves. These meld with nuanced layers of nougat, rose petal, and hints of baking spices. The palate has elegantly concentrated flavours of white and yellow stone fruits, hints of canned pineapple along with honeysuckle and exotic florals. Well balanced with a slight minerality creating a fine-textured bone dry palate.

Vinification
The fruit for this Pinot Gris came from four different vineyards in the Lower Wairau sub-region, and one from Taylor Pass. Each block was managed individually according to its soil type, clone and the conditions throughout the growing season. The grapes were a mixture of the older 2/15 clone and newer 457 and 52B clones which have been producing beautiful little berries full of concentrated stonefruit flavours. In the winery the majority of the juice was pressed and the juice settled it in tank then racked before a slow, cool ferment which ensued preservation of fruit characters and freshness. We whole bunch pressed the hand harvested portion of the grapes and allowed a wild ferment with natural yeasts to occur. This portion of the wine also underwent a full malolactic fermentation with some lees stirring in the barrel which has added unique flavour and textural elements to the wine. Once the wine had rested of approximately 6 months the components were blended then promptly bottled.