Howard Vineyard Adelaide Hills Pinot Gris 2021
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Region
Adelaide Hills, SA
Variety
Pinot Gris
It wouldn't be dinner without a nice glass of wine to accompany this delicious duck & orange sauce dish. Once again, my boy, Dan has come up trumps...a little election joke, with this delicious Curtis Family Limited Series 2016 Grenache.
Rich, tender, quack-quack. Good duck is just so good, eh? This glaze is just the thing to make it great.
Ingredients
Serves 4 2 bunches white asparagus, peeled 1 ½ oranges, peeled & segmented 5 eggs 1 litre vegetable oil ½ cup fine bread crumbs ½ cup sifted flour Chervil or Italian parsley to garnish Beurre Blanc: 50ml white wine vinegar 2 slices orange peel 50ml heavy cream 150g cold, cubed butter ½ orange chives Freshly ground pepper & saltMethod
In a deep pot heat the oil slowly. Carefully poach 4 of the eggs for 3-4 minutes till soft and put to one side to rest. Blanch the asparagus in some lightly salted boiling water till al dente (tender crisp) & drain. To crumb the eggs carefully coat in flour, then egg (1 egg lightly whisked) and finally in the bread crumbs. Gently lower into the oil with a spoon and fry till golden. A good way to test whether the oil is hot enough
Considerably cooler than the surrounding plains, the hills are washed in rain during winter months, and the peaks wrapped in fog.
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,
