2025 Hoddles Creek Estate Pinot Gris
2025 Hoddles Creek Estate Pinot Gris

2025 Hoddles Creek Estate Pinot Gris

95 pts
Hoddles Creek |Yarra Valley |Pinot Gris/Grigio
Year after year the county's best value Pinot Gris. Such delicious drinking. No brainer!
Price:
$24.00
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Description

Back in 2013, Franco D'Anna admitted he was "fed up" with making conventional, water-clear Pinot Gris. He found it boring to make and boring to drink. So, he decided to make Gris with some actual personality.

This is a world away from your standard crisp-and-dry Italian style. It is made with intent. The fruit is hand-picked and foot-stomped in bins to get the juice in contact with the skins immediately. A portion is even treated like a red wine - destemmed and left on skins for seven days to build tannin and structure.

The finished wine comes with a distinct blush of pink (do not be alarmed, that is where the flavour is!) and a palate that has genuine grip and texture. It is fermented in old white barriques, adding savoury layers to the fruit.

If you want a Pinot Gris that actually tastes like something - savoury, textural, and complex - this one of Australia's benchmarks.

95 points
"You'd be hard pushed to find a better gris than this at the price." 
Philip Rich (Halliday Wine Companion)

93 points
"Delicious. It’s a distinctly textural wine but attractively cool and fine boned. An elevated expression from the variety in a restrained way."
- Mike Bennie (The Wine Front)

95 points - "From two plots – one picked early with the later seeing more skin contact. A pale, bright cured salmon colour. Delicately perfumed with its aromas of red apple, cranberry, orange zest and a touch of rose petal. Mouth-filling and flavoursome, this finishes with a touch of tannin on the satisfying and long finish. You'd be hard pushed to find a better gris than this at the price." - Philip Rich (Halliday Wine Companion)

93 points - "A little sash on the label annotates ‘Whole Bunch Fermented’, and so away we go.

A pretty pink-orange hue, delicate as a wine but with good grip and light chalky pucker. Rose water, rose hip tea, pomegranate juice and a big squish of red-skinned pear and light juniper berry notes. Delicious. It’s a distinctly textural wine but attractively cool and fine boned. An elevated expression from the variety in a restrained way." - Mike Bennie (The Wine Front)

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.

We make it this way to try get a balance between aroma and tannin ripeness. The stalks from the first treatment adds some fine tannins and obviously you get a lot more tannin from the second treatment. We try and find a balance in between depending on the year.

Price Bracket $30 or Less
Type White
Body Medium Bodied
Variety Pinot Gris/Grigio
Region Yarra Valley
Australian State VIC
Alcohol 13%
Size 750ml
Vintage 2025
Closure Screw Cap

Hoddles Creek Estate

Hoddles Creek Estate lays 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 crafts 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!

Winemaker Franco D'Anna - Yarra Valley, VIC Discover Hoddles Creek

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