{"id":6245,"date":"2012-02-26T23:27:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T23:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/pinot-gris-hitting-its-straps\/"},"modified":"2012-02-26T23:27:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T23:27:00","slug":"pinot-gris-hitting-its-straps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2012\/02\/pinot-gris-hitting-its-straps\/","title":{"rendered":"PINOT GRIS HITTING ITS STRAPS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wc27Feb12<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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RESULT of a textbook
perfect vintage.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

David Ellis<\/p>\n

PINOT Gris appears to be really hitting its straps of late, not just here but internationally, particularly amongst female drinkers who enjoy its slightly more fruit-forward characters either for social sipping or with a variety of food choices.<\/p>\n

And interestingly California is now the world’s biggest maker of Pinot Gris, overtaking its home-town France (and Italy where its known as Pinot Grigio,) while Australian growers are also planting more of the variety, as are many in New Zealand.<\/p>\n

One particularly enjoyable New Zealand Pinot Gris is from Essenze in Waipara on the South Island where the 2011 vintage was one of almost textbook perfection: their resultant wine that’s just been released here is one with ripe fruit flavours of peach, pear and with citrus touches, and a touch of minerality.<\/p>\n

Chief Winemaker, Corey Ryan and young-gun off-sider, Gwyn Olsen can be justifiably proud of this one, and to enjoy it (at a well-priced $19.99) to its best at the table, they suggest matching with roast chicken over shiitake mushroom and goat’s curd fettuccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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TRY this one with Vietnamese
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ONE FOR LUNCH: RYMILL in South Australia’s Coonawarra have released their first-ever Gewurztraminer, and it makes you wonder why they’ve waited so long to show their skills at making this perfumed, sweeter-style wine \u2013 and which in this case is made in more dryer-than-usual mode.<\/p>\n

Senior Winemaker, Sandrine Gimon crafted the 2011 Rymill Coonawarra gt (for Gewurztraminer) as part of the company’s “Coonawarra Foodies” range of wines. And she certainly achieved her goal of a wine that’s traditionally crisp and luscious, and ideal to partner with a myriad food options, in particular most spicy Asian dishes (think along the lines of Vietnamese barbecued pork fillet,) duck, or chicken or pork stir-fries.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nicely priced at $19.95 for adventurous foodies.<\/p>\n

(NEED A FOOD\/DRINK IDEA? Check out\u00a0 http:\/\/www.vintnews.com<\/a> )<\/p>\n

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Wc27Feb12 RESULT of a textbookperfect vintage. David Ellis PINOT Gris appears to be really hitting its straps of late, not just here but internationally, particularly amongst female drinkers who enjoy its slightly more fruit-forward characters either for social sipping or with a variety of food choices. And interestingly California is now the world’s biggest maker […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[392,404,397],"class_list":["post-6245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-coonawarra","tag-pinot-gris","tag-reisling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}