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Pinot Gris/Pinot Grigio
A first class grape variety grown in Alsace, where it is known as Tokay Pinot Gris, and in Italy, where it is called Pinot Grigio. In Alsace it is best suited to the deep, clay rich soils found in the north of the region where it produces richly honeyed, dry whites as well as superb sweet late harvest wines. At its best it combines the heady perfume and rich aroma of Gewürztraminer with the acidity one associates with Riesling. It ages very well, developing rich buttery characteristics.
In Northern Italy Pinot Grigio produces many thin undistinguished dry whites. However it comes into its own in Friuli-Venezia and the Alto Adige, where leading producers such as Alvaro Pecorari of Lis Neris produce marvellously rounded, elegant, and mineral laden examples. Pinot Gris is now grown with notable success in Oregon in the USA and in New Zealand.
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The 2011 Zellberg Pinot Gris noticeably is darker than the Muenchberg, with more pronounced peach and honey notes, along with a sensation of thick skins and dryness, born of chalk, clay and pink sandstone (the latter a characteristic soil of the Bas-Rhin). A ‘Premier Cru’ site as and when the authorities re-classify the region. Vinified in Vosges tonneaux, reflecting Pinot Gris’s lineage back to Pinot Beurot in Burgundy.
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