2020 Hoddles Creek Estate Pinot Gris
Yarra Valley, VIC
Year after year the county's best value Pinot Gris. Such delicious drinking. No brainer!
$22.00
Out of Stock
About The Wine
Hoddles Creek, under the guidance of Franco D'Anna, continue to push the boundaries of value for money in Australian wine.
The latest release of their Pinot Gris is a brilliant value proposition. It's made with care and intent. The fruit picked in two stages; the first is foot stomped immediately to allow the juice to make contact with the skins, picking up vital phenolics and texture.
Once the natural ferment kicks off, the fruit is pressed and sent to barrel. The second batch was made, in essence, like a red wine - fermented on skins for a week and pressed once dry.
If you want to see this variety in full flight, you need to try this wine. For $22, this is as good as Australian Pinot Gris gets.
About Hoddles Creek Estate
Hoddles Creek lay a serious claim to being one of the best value producers in Australia.
Led by the extremely hardworking winemaking guru Franco D’Anna, the Hoddles team craft wonderful Chardonnay and Pinot Noir in particular that seriously overdeliver at all price-points.
The wines are all made from fruit grown on their family vineyard in the Upper Yarra Valley.
A must try for Yarra Valley fans and bargain hunters alike!
Yarra Valley, VIC
From The Producer
After making Pinot Gris conventionally since 2002, I was fed up making the same boring wine. Not only did I loath to make it, I didn’t enjoy drinking it. I guess that energy flowed to the wine.
In 2013, I decided to try something different, and instead of trying to take the colour out, I would make it as I think it should be made. Wine is really risk and reward. I really didn’t like the grape so I decided to take some risks that we wouldn’t normally take. We began experimenting and each year we try push those boundaries a bit further.
So for 90% of the blend we:
Hand pick into bins. As soon as it’s picked we foot stomp the bins to release the juice so it can be in contact with the skins. No sulphur is added. We then chill the bins down to 12 degrees and wait for fermentation to begin.Near the completion of ferment, we press straight into old white barriques to finish fermentation.
Blend : Pinot Gris (100%)
ABV : 12%
Closure : Screw Cap
Drink Until : 2024
Bottle Size : 750ml
Yarra Valley, VIC
Critic Reviews
"Plenty of colour, which is nice, and also, quite a bit more citrus and crunch coming through in 2020. There’s still the brown pear and musky perfume, light chalky grip, and a bright punch of tangerine acidity to close. Almost to rosato in style, but a very tasty drink." - Gary Walsh (The Wine Front)
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