Blackenbrook Vineyard
Blackenbrook
Reserve
St Jacques
Blackenbrook Pinot Gris 2008
This year's Pinot Gris boasts a charming spread of pear, quince and spice flavours combined with an excellent mouthfeel, delicacy and harmony.
It will benefit from bottle ageing and we recommend to enjoy it between now and 2010.
Ideal serving temperature: 15°C.
- 100% Blackenbrook fruit from our Home block
- Moutere clay soil with a layer
- of sandy loam
- All vines grafted on site
Clones: Mission, Larcomb, KWV 7A
Focus on healthy soil and strong plants
Excellent spring weather resulted in almost perfect pollination. A warm summer brought along healthy canopy growth leading to the earliest harvest ever
Hand-picked and hand-sorted From 27 March to 2 April at optimum ripeness
24.9 - 25.3 Brix
- Whole bunch pressed
- Gravity-fed from press area to main winery
- Cool fermentation, stopped at 8g/ltr natural residual sugar
- Extended fine lees contact in stainless steel
Bottled on 31 July 2008 under screw capsules
15.0% Alcohol
What they say...
Bragato Wine Awards 2009Gold Medal.
[88/100] Bob Campbell - Gourmet Traveller WineA rich, spicy Alsace-style Pinot Gris with impressive concentration and great mouthfeel. The wine has a little sweetness that's nicely balanced by a combination of acidity and fine tannins. Pear, quince and clove/spice flavours with a suggestion of anise.
Michael Cooper - Buyer's GuideThe powerful 2008 vintage was estate-grown, hand-picked at over 25 brix and lees-aged in tanks. It’s a weighty wine (harbouring 15 per cent alcohol), floral and very ripely scented, with concentrated peach, pear and spice flavours in a distinctly late harvest style with apple strudel and honey notes.
The nose has gorgeous heady fragrance of floral, peach and subtle spice notes. It's richly balanced acidity providing freshness.Jo Burzynska - Viva, New Zealand Herald
Warren Barton - Southland TimesBlackenbrook is a relatively new Nelson estate that has swiftly established itself as one of the most exciting producers of Aromatics in the region.
A gutsy, floral wine with plenty of pears, stonefruit and spice that is now beginning to reveal its luscious, lightly honeyed charms.