APPEARANCE – Delicate salmon-pink colour
TASTING NOTES – This wine is mouthwatering, vivacious and captures the fragrances of Summer.
LOCATION – 45 Degrees South
Low cropping estate grown grapes for this wine were hand-harvested in April from Aurum’s Te Wairere vineyard in the Lowburn area of Central Otago.
CLIMATE – A long warm autumn with hot dry days and cool nights allowed an extended ripening of fruit still holding good acidity.
SOILS – Fluvial, glacial silts and gravels.
VINE AGE – 15-20-year-old vines
TRELLIS STYLE – VSP
Macerated to extract the delicate colour of the Pinot Gris skins and vinified in stainless steel at low temperature. Perfect as an aperitif or with a light lunch.
Residual Sugar: 3 g/L
Alcohol: 13.5% alc by vol