Classic Marlborough Pinot Gris

This delicious Pinot Gris has ripe and juicy stone fruit, pear, and quince flavours with a hint of spice. The luscious fruit flavours are balanced with a mouth-watering acidity.

Classic Pinot Gris 

Our Classic wines capture the most vibrant flavours in each variety. Pure in flavour and expression, our wines reflect the best of Marlborough.

Adorning every label on every bottle of Rapaura Springs wine is a simple symbol – a circle of rocks that signify the pure spring in our home vineyard in the heart of Marlborough, New Zealand. Our label and our name represent our intimate connection to the pristine waters that collect high in the Southern Alps and are gradually filtered beneath the region’s braided rivers, refreshing the deep underground aquifers that feed our vines and bubble up in our own Rapaura Springs. The purity of our springs influences how we craft our wine and tend our vineyards.

Winemaking Notes

The 2023 growing season started with above average bunch numbers in most districts in Marlborough. Unsettled and cooler weather over flowering resulted in loose and lighter bunches, with the net effect of producing average yields across most varieties and regions. The weather around the time of veraison was unstable, and at times threatening. We just missed out on the destruction of the cyclone that hit the east coast of the North Island. The weather then settled into a pattern reminiscent of the harvests in the early 2000s. The nights were particularly cool, and this helped to arrest any small levels of botrytis that had started in the early unsettled weather. It was a vintage where patience was rewarded and those who waited harvested fully ripe grapes with concentrated flavours and classic acidity. After a careful harvest when perfectly ripe, our Pinot Gris was taken straight to our winery for pressing. The juice was fermented at cool temperatures, using selected yeast strains, to capture the expressive fruit flavour and aromatics.

Cellaring Recommendation

Enjoy now, or cellar for up to three years.

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