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Pretty honeysuckle aromas lead to easygoing lemon sorbet and melon flavors in this white. Drink now. 100,000 cases made.
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100% Pinot Gris from two certified organic vineyards within the Willamette Valley: Oracle Vineyard in Dundee Hills...
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Aroma: On the nose, this Pinot Gris has a pronounced aroma of mixed tropical and citrus fruits such as pineapple,...
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Eyrie pioneered the variety in the New World and the New World’s oldest vines contribute to this cuvée. We take a...
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We have been making Pinot gris as a “red wine” before it was cool (~2014). A genetic variant of Pinot noir, yet...
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Pear, lime, and honeysuckle aromas that are accented by green mango, fennel blossom, and slate. Flavors of apple,...
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The Joel Gott Oregon Pinot Gris has aromas of honeydew melon and lime with notes of pear and peach blossoms. On the...
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Pretty classic 100% stainless-steel Willamette Valley Pinot Gris that aged sur lie for four months. Aromas of...
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Our award-winning Pinot Gris is a versatile crowd pleaser with intensely fruit-forward aromas. It opens beautifully...
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A clean nose, offers aromas of peach, citrus and hints of a sage-pear tartlet, both herbaceous and sweet. The palate...
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The sweetly floral 2022 Pinot Gris opens with a pretty blend of chamomile and crushed green apples. It's soothingly...
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Blaufrankisch Friulano Pinot Gris Savatiano Verdelho United States Oregon

The Pinot Grigio or Pinot Gris grape varietal is now one of the most widely grown vines in the world, due to the surge in popularity of Pinot Grigio wines over the past twenty years or so. These grayish-blue fruits, which hang in their distinctively conical bunches, are responsible for a very broad range of wines famous for their variety of color tones and flavors Pinot Grigio varietal grapes are highly influenced by terroir, climate and particularly the skill and expertise of the vintners who process them. As such, there are full bodied, amber colored wines made from this grape, and there are equally delicious yet far leaner, paler, lighter bodied and crisp white wines made from the same species in other parts of the world.

Savatiano is probably Greece's most well known and most widely grown grape varietal, as it is the primary grape used in the production of Retsina, where the fermenting juices of the Savatiano varietal are flavored with pine resin in order to make this distinctive and famous wine. One of the reasons for the wide cultivation of this grape is due to its hardiness, and resistance to drought conditions. In the sun-drenched and dry, rocky Greek landscapes, this makes it an ideal vine to grow for wine-makers who require a strong and bounteous yield each year.

However, there are plenty of examples of Greek white wines which use the Savatiano grape but withhold from the addition the pine resin flavoring, allowing the true characteristics of this varietal to shine through. The result is often very pleasing indeed, with Savatiano grapes generally producing extremely well balanced and rounded white wines, with a juicily fruity flavor. Their aromas can vary quite a lot, with many Savatiano wines bearing the fragrance of citrus fruits, and also occasionally having a strong floral aroma reminiscent of elder and rose. Due to the relatively low acidity of Savatiano grapes, the wines which use them (including Retsina) generally bolster themselves with the addition of smaller quantities of more acidic varieties, such as Assyrtiko or Rhoditis, in order to improve their sometimes weak structure.

Additional Information on Greek Wines


Greek Wines
Ancient Greek Wines – A Brief History of Wine in Greece
The Myth of Dionysus, Greek God of Wine
What is Retsina?

Of all the New World wine countries, perhaps the one which has demonstrated the most flair for producing high quality wines - using a combination of traditional and forward-thinking contemporary methods - has been the United States of America. For the past couple of centuries, the United States has set about transforming much of its suitable land into vast vineyards, capable of supporting a wide variety of world-class grape varietals which thrive on both the Atlantic and the Pacific coastlines. Of course, we immediately think of sun-drenched California in regards to American wines, with its enormous vineyards responsible for the New World's finest examples of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot based wines, but many other states have taken to viticulture in a big way, with impressive results. Oregon, Washington State and New York have all developed sophisticated and technologically advanced wine cultures of their own, and the output of U.S wineries is increasing each year as more and more people are converted to their produce.

The beautiful state of Oregon has, over the past few decades, become increasingly well known and respected for its wine industry, with several small but significant wineries within the state receiving world wide attention for the quality of their produce. Whilst the first vineyards within Oregon were planted in the 1840s, the state's wine industry didn't really take off until the 1960s, when several wine producers from California discovered that the cooler regions of the state were ideal for cultivating various fine grape varietals. Today, Oregon has over four hundred and fifty wineries in operation, the vast majority of which are used for the production of wines made from Pinot Gris and Pinot Noir varietal grapes, both of which thrive in the valleys and mountainsides which characterise the landscape of the state.