Port Phillip Quartier Pinot Gris 2023

Description

Port Phillip Estate is a specialist Chardonnay, Pinot Gris and Pinot Noir producer located on the Mornington Peninsula, one of Australia’s foremost cool-climate maritime wine regions. Meticulous sustainable viticulture and sensitive minimalist winemaking produce site-expressive wines of elegance, complexity and structure. Port Phillip Estate wines are domain grown, vinified and bottled. “We endeavour to grow the highest quality fruit that expresses the terroir of each vineyard. Our sustainable farming practices are driven by the belief that the health of our vineyard soils, and thus vines, underpin wine quality.  All grapes are hand pruned, shoot thinned and hand picked.” Winemaker Glen Hayley

“Since becoming chief winemaker at Port Phillip Estate a few years ago, Glen Hayley has taken the estate’s already good wines to new levels of quality and detail.” Max Allen

Quartier means neighbourhood in French and the Quartier varietals are a celebration of diverse terroirs on the Mornington Peninsula. The fruit for this wine is sourced from a neighbouring vineyard in Balnarring.

About the 2023 vintage from the winery: “Weather conditions were mild with temperatures below average and rainfall above average, providing gradual ripening throughout harvest with rain events being the only pressure. Our viticulture team worked steadily to deliver pristine fruit to the winery. Yields were lower than average due to the cool and wet 2022 Spring. Despite the low yields, fruit quality is exceptional.

“Pale straw in colour, with bright fruit aromas that leap from glass. Green apple flesh, pear skin and a touch of citrus merge to notes of fresh picked spices and honeysuckle florals. The palate is vibrant and crisp, with a long fine line of acidity that drives the wine harmoniously from start to finish. The mid palate displays a creamy lees textural note that is subtly woven into the fruit layer. Pears, grapefruit, and spice all converge into a flavoursome finish.”

93 points, Ken Gargett, The Wine Pilot “It has taken little more than a blink of a viticultural eye for Mornington Peninsula to establish itself as one of the country’s top regions to grow Pinot Gris. A lovely pale yellow, this is a refined style of Pinot Gris with its gorgeous texture the real highlight. There are notes of peaches and pears on the nose, and hints of oatmeal emerging on the palate. This is a seriously impressive Pinot Gris with very good length and some early complexity evident. Four to six years.”