[SOLD-OUT] Ten Minutes By Tractor 10X Pinot Gris 2015

Wine Front 92 points!
“Mornington certainly has a way with pinot gris.

It has a casual style. It has flavour, complexity and length but it makes them all look easy. It tastes of pear, grapefruit and citrus with hints (only) of fennel, stonefruit and spice. It’s fresh, clean, there’s a bit of tension, some texture and a bit of body. I can’t imagine you’d want much more from a young drink-now white.”
Campbell Mattinson, Wine Front, October 2016

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Our 10X wines are designed as easy drinking examples of what the Mornington Peninsula can produce. They may have been picked from younger vines or at slightly different times to achieve slightly different characteristics and, as a general rule, they see less new oak and spend less time in oak during maturation. There are many parallels to baked goods in the way this smells, pear flesh mingling with vanilla and caramel as if part of a luscious dessert just taken from the oven to cool. This hints at the admirably involved range of techniques used in making this wine, including barrel fermentation, bâtonnage and a malolactic fermentation. Technicalities aside, the end result is a complex, alluring range of aromas that draws one into the glass. Texturally, this wine is a masterclass in winemaking. There are textures aplenty - from a slippery glycerine-like glide through the middle palate to burbles of acid and a rasp of phenolic grip as the wine moves through its long finish. Mouthfeel alone would be enough to justify this wine. But there are a great range of flavours too, which continue from the nose to deliver Bosc pear, cream and butterscotch on the tongue. A neutral Pinot Gris this is not; there’s so much going on, yet it’s all contained and shapely thanks to all those textures. 

Ten Minutes By Tractor (Julian Coldrey)

  Sustainably-made  

Country:

Australia

Region:

VIC- Mornington Pen

Variety:

Wine White - Pinot gris/grigio

Size:

750mL