13%, Screwcap, $19.95
Source: Sample
www.nepenthe.com.au
Tough year for the Adelaide Hills, with unripe fruit and botrytis a go-go, all of which are writ large in this wine. Fair result perhaps but tough going really.
A particularly neutral nose on this Gris, showing a little green pea and pyrazine unripe fruit edged with lemon grass. Smells rather light on this does, with just a little Pinot Gris varietal character poking through. Similarly, the palate is white-paint-on-a-white-wall, quasi-Grigio territory if saved by the edges of white peach fruit livening things up again, everything topped off with searing acidity.
Fair drink but little joy ultimately. 15.8/85
2009/10 WCA Wine Journalism 'Young Gun; Wine Judge; Gourmet Traveller WINE and Breathe Hunter Valley magazine contributor; LattéLife & The Retiree columnist; National Liquor News tasting panellist and Chablis lover who fell into the liquor industry chiefly to buy cheap beer.
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