Drink If You Like: Much more expensive PGs from Alsace.
Food Match: Fries, Crispy Fish Tacos, spicy Asian dishes.
Fun Fact: This leans towards the incredible Alsace style of PG, a little residual sugar and the grapes picked ripe - so it is beautifully textural and works superbly with spiced Asian dishes and fried foods.
A beautifully textured Waipara Pinot Gris showing ripe pear, white peach and stone fruit aromas, with a generous palate of orchard fruit, gentle spice and refreshing acidity. Rich, flavourful and incredibly food friendly. This leans towards the styles of Alsace, which are picked ripe and retain a little residual sugar which gives them a wonderful texture and makes them a brilliant match for moderately spicy dishes, especially with Asian flavours as well a being perfect with a big bowl of fresh fries or wedges.
Camshorn is a brand belonging to the Vinarchy Wine Group who also own Petaluma, Hardys, St Hugo, Grant Burge and St Hallett in addition to high end brands in New Zealand and Spain. They make a lot of exceptional high end wines and plenty of quality commercial stuff too.
Variety
Pinot Gris
Pinot Gris is a white wine grape variety of the species Vitis vinifera. Thought to be a mu ...
Pinot Gris is a white wine grape variety of the species Vitis vinifera. Thought to be a mutant clone of the Pinot Noir grape, it normally has a grayish-blue fruit, accounting for its name ("gris" meaning "grey" in French) but the grape can have a brownish pink to black and even white appearance. The word "Pinot", which means "pinecone" in French, could have been given to it because the grapes grow in small pinecone-shaped clusters.
The wines produced from this grape also vary in colour from a deep golden yellow to copper and even a light shade of pink, and it is one of the more popular grapes for orange wine.
The clone of Pinot Gris grown in Italy is ... Read Full Article
This week I am sipping on a Semillon from First Creek in the Hunter Valley. Semillon is a thing of beauty really. Drunk young it's fresh with juicy acidity, apple, pear, and loads of bright citrus notes. Kept in the cellar and it will reward you in 5, 10, and 20 years. As it develops it gets (I think) a little grassy, the acidity is less prominent and notes of honey start to form. Pick this up from winedirect.com.au at a bargain of $22 a bottle and the only thing you will complain about is having not bought 6-12 bottles!
Riesling would be my first choice for this salmon dish, winedirect.com.au came through with an absolute CRACKER! Patrick of Coonawarra 2012 aged Riesling, this has to be one of the best rieslings I've tasted in a while.
Many wine drinkers assume Pinot Gris and Pinot Grigio are completely different wines. Others think they're one and the same. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
Pinot Gris is a white wine grape variety of the species Vitis vinifera. Thought to be a mutant clone of the Pinot Noir grape, it normally has a grayish-blue fruit, accounting for its name ("gris" meaning "grey" in French) but the grape can have a brownish pink to black and even white appearance. The word "Pinot", which means "pinecone" in French, could have been given to it because the grapes grow in small pinecone-shaped clusters.
The wines produced from this grape also vary in colour from a deep golden yellow to copper and even a light shade of pink, and it is one of the more popular grapes for orange wine.
The clone of Pinot Gris grown in Italy is known as Pinot Grigio.
In Australia
Pinot Gris was first introduced into Australia in 1832 in the collection of grapes brought by James Busby. In Victoria, wines from the grape are labeled both Pinot Gris and Pinot Grigio, depending on the sweetness of wine with the drier wines being labeled Pinot Grigio.
