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Cuisine Magazine May 2006
**** Partly barrel fermented, this is
a powerful style of Pinot Gris, dry and weighty, with stone fruit
flavours and creamy, leesy characters adding richness. A wine that
should mature well.
Michael Cooper's
Buyer's Guide to New Zealand Wines 2006
The skilfully balanced 2004
vintage (*** 1/2) was grown in the McCreanor and Croft Home vineyards,
on the Martinborough Terrrace. A scented, slightly honeyed wine,
it is full-bodied, fresh and crisp, with a limey, green edge, but
also good weight and flavour depth and some nutty complexity.
Capital Times - 16 November 2005
Silver
Stonefruit nose and a tropical palate. A nice, straightforward
wine that does all the right things.
Charmian Smith
Otago Daily Times - 10 August 2005
Martinborough Vineyard Pinot Gris 2004 demonstrates
just how good this fashionable but unfortunately often too boring
variety can be. There's a hint of peach and a suggesetion of mealiness
but the quality is in the wine's texture, mouthfeel, balance and
length. It's a powerful, classy wine, good drinking now, but also
with cellaring potential.
John Saker
Capital Times -
6-12 July 2005
It is dramatic, from the big pear and spice aromas
to the pleasing full, rich, 'minor key' flavours in the mouth. It
is dryish in style and the structure balances the fruit beautifully.
Bob Campbell
NZ Home & Entertaining - June/July 2005
SILVER Leesy, complex oak-fermented Pinot Gris with
nice richness and length. Some pear with sizzled butter with a solid
influence of spicy oak.
Graeme Barrow
The Northern Advocate - July 9, 2005
Pear, spice and lemon bouquet,
leesy and spciy on the palate, with the faintest suggestion of
oak. Rich and concentrated, weighty (14) and with good viscosity
and finish. Now/three years.
Peter Saunders
F&B Magazine - July 2005
Very tasty, fresh, crisp and dry with
a lovely intensity showing after 15 months which highlights the strength
and interest this variety has as a food wine. No dicernable oak thi
syear although there is a percentage barrel-fermented. Very good
drinking already and lots to come.
Glenda Neil
Next Magazine - May 2005
A serious wine - big, rich, powerful and
concentrated. Flavours of sweet ripe pears are overlaid with spicy
nutmeg. A stunning example of top quality pinot gris.
Michael Cooper
Classic Wines of New Zealand (2nd ed.) - 2005
*****
Light lemon/green. Inviting, fresh-scented bouquet with lychee
and pear characters and floral notes. Softly mouthfilling, with
a slightly oily texture, rich pear and peach flavours, finely
balanced oak, a hint of honey. Delicious in its youth. A top
year.
Peter Saunders
F&B Magazine - January 2005
Nice to see a gris release after
20 months rather than eight. Not a big fruit style yet no delicate
little thing either. Some nice mealiness and spice with just a
touch of seasoned oak influence all work well. Balanced, charming
and with plenty of interest.
Charmian Smith
Otago Daily Times - 23 February 2005
Martinborough Vineyard Pinot
Gris 2003 also benefits from the nutty flavours and textures
of extra winemaking input, but an extra year's age has mellowed
and integrated these. Stylish and delicious, this is one of New
Zealand's benchmark pinot gris.
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