2024 Prophet's Rock Pinot Gris

A beautifully crafted, off-dry Pinot Gris from one of Central Otago’s top sites – textured, serious and full of quiet class.

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Description

Prophet’s Rock has quietly built a reputation for crafting some of Central Otago’s most distinctive and serious whites, and this 2024 Pinot Gris carries that thread forward with poise. Grown on the schist-laced slopes of their Bendigo estate, this is not your average fruit-bomb Gris – it’s a layered, textural, Alsace-inspired take that rewards time and attention.

The fruit was handpicked and whole-bunch pressed, then fermented wild in old barrels, with the wine left on lees for an extended period to build weight and complexity. It’s off-dry in style, but the acidity keeps everything in check – a wine of balance, not excess.

It’s drinking beautifully now, especially with food, but like all great Prophet’s Rock whites, it’ll happily go a few more years in bottle. One of the country’s benchmark Pinot Gris, year in and year out.

Palate
This wine opens up with intriguing aromas of nashi pear, white peach and lemon curd, with subtle note of white florals. The palate shows concentration and the complexity of some time in old barrels. White peach, pears, honeysuckle, brioche as well as an almost ruby grapefruit like acidity. Beautifully balanced between fresh acidity and just a lick of sweetness, this wine finishes long and textural.

Cellaring
Cellar with confidence for 10+ years from vintage.

In the Vineyard
Pinot Gris has always been a strong focus for Prophet’s Rock. We farm our aromatic whites to the same high standard in the vineyard as our top Pinot Noir and take time through all aspects of production to ensure that the wine we release is the best reflection of the site it can be. The grapes for this wine are hand-picked from our estate vineyards with the predominate source being the Rocky Point Vineyard. This site has warm free draining, predominantly schist soils with some of the steepest planted blocks in Central Otago. Extensive canopy and crop management is carried out during the growing season to ensure the grapes attained full physiological ripeness with great concentration, aromatics, and flavour. Yields on all sites are kept very low and do not exceed 35-38hl/ha or 4.5-5t/ha. In the vineyard this equates to one bunch maximum per shoot, no shoulders or wings, and a further green-thin at veraison.

In the Winery
Our winemaking aims to be an exercise in understanding and translating our stunning sites into wine as accurately as possible with a minimum of winery signature.

Price Bracket $51 to $100
Type White
Body Full Bodied
Variety Pinot Gris
Country New Zealand
Region Central Otago
Size 750ml
Vintage 2024
Closure Cork

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