My responses to regular drinking wine. I am a writer, and former teacher and researcher of food-and-wine writing at Southern Cross University, NSW, Australia.
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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