Lot 403
2022 Anderson Valley Pinot Gris (97-points)
Description
Lot 403 is sourced from one of Anderson Valley’s pioneers, grown on their estate vineyards, and hand-selected from only the ripest and best blocks in the vineyard. This delicious, scintillating, bone-dry Pinot Gris is crystalline, energetic, and mouthwatering, making for a wonderful aperitif, poolside sipper, or meal accompaniment…think Orchard Fruit Salad with Burrata, to Oysters on the Half Shell, and other lighter seafood fare.
A fresh, bright and effusive bouquet opens with orangesicle evolving into fresh, crisp apple, honeycomb, citrus zest, and citrus blossom underpinned by a pretty minerality. Fleshy on the palate with an amalgam of apple fruit and chalk, this bone-dry white is a beautiful rendition of an Alsatian or Alto Adige Pinot Gris. Wonderfully-balanced and well-structured, it delivers orange and vanilla blossom notes, then a lemon-flecked minerality crosses the wine into an elegant, sustained finish with exceptional purity.