Belle Pente Vineyard Pinot gris Reserve 06

The Belle Pente Pinot gris Reserve 06 offers lovely vanilla and toast on the nose, this wine opens up on the palette with tons of white apricot and stone fruits. The finish shows Alsatian minerality and slate notes. If you have the palate for complex, polished Pinot gris with the emphasis on subtlety and complexity, this is the wine for you.

inot Gris fans take note - this is something you don't want to miss! In 2006, we left a portion of our oldest Pinot Gris vines "hang" for several weeks beyond the normal harvest date in hopes of making a late harvest desert wine. Unfortunately, the grapes didn't get quite ripe enough for a "stand alone" dessert wine, but they were harvested significantly riper than the rest of our Pinot Gris - so we decided to build a Reserve bottling around them. Our style of Pinot Gris has always been closer to Alsace than Alto Adige, and this wine takes it to another level. Although the aromatics are rather restrained, the wine explodes on the palate with rich, ripe, viscous tropical fruit, accented by an almost smoky, briny minerality (grilled mangos at a beach barbeque?). The residual sugar (2%) is balanced with adequate acidity. A thoroughly intriguing wine - a bit "over the top," and eminently enjoyable! - the winery