Saturday, November 21, 2015

2015 Tar and roses Pinot Grigio

I have always sought out a pink Pinot Gris/Grigio since I tasted a Tasmanian one many years ago – 2010 – in the then newly opened National Wine Centre of Australia, Adelaide. It's like pursuing a dream, a spectre, a trace. One of my faves is Tar and roses Pinot Grigio. But the 2015 has changed on the palate, while still being a pale bronze, salmon rose, apricot pink, orange hinted extraordinary colour. The colour puce might smell like this wine: honey/mead and marshmallow. The honey/mead is repeated on the palate. It's drier than former years and my sister always thought it a little sweet. But it has become acidic, with some tannin, like an unripe tangerine or salted butterscotch/caramel. (Perhaps the winemakers, Don Lewis and Narelle King, are trying to match the wine with this latest craze = salted everything-formerly-sweet.)

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