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Pinot Gris

Pinot Gris Reserve Wine Details
Price: $21.00 per bottle

Description: A bright and moderately weighty Pinot gris, with good acid, a minerality and gray aromatic strains of lavender, sea salts and lemon-lime. Not overripe or bruised fruit in impression, it is bright, fresh and dry. There is good weight, a little heat and a focused white fruit core of white peach, with honeycomb. A great white year, but with reduced volumes.

Varietal Definition
Pinot Grigio/Gris:
Pinkish-white variety producing a very crisp white wine. Grown in Oregon, the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia, and more and more in California, it shows promise for other cool climates. Also known as Tokay d'Alsace in France, Rulander in Germany, and Pinot Grigio in Italy.


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