Pinot Gris is the fourth most planted grape in New Zealand with a massive 2,488 hectares nationwide, inching slowly up to Chardonnays 3,167 hectares. Its huge growth from just 157 hectares of Pinot Gris as recently as 2001, but numbers aside, its the taste that counts and Greywacke is next level in flavour.

The grapes in this wine are from the Wrekin Terrace Vineyard in Brancott Valley where they grow on gravel over clay-loam soils, typical of the Southern Valleys in Marlborough. Three clones of Pinot Gris were all hand picked separately at high ripeness levels to provide rich fruity flavours in the finished wine, which was fermented in a combo of old French oak barriques and stainless steel tanks, all with wild yeasts to a finished 14.4% ABV with 10 grams per litre of residual sugar.

Fresh, full bodied, off dry and intensely concentrated; one for the large glass on a decadent spring evening.