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Wine Recommendation
Brassfield Estate Winery
2005 Pinot Grigio, High Serenity Ranch(High Valley)
Getting a handle on California Pinot Gris is hard enough without giving vintners the freedom to call their wine Pinot Grigio if they feel like it. Does “Gris” mean “French-style”? Does “Grigio” mean “Italian-style”? Who knows? I’m recommending this wine because it picks a position and sticks to it: refreshing, tangy fruit vinified with low alcohol but abundant personality. This is what you find people drinking at lunch in northern Italy in the summer, because it accentuates food flavors perfectly without knocking you on your butt for the rest of the afternoon.
Italian Pinot Grigio is a wine to sip, not sniff, and here you get the decisive tanginess right along with a flood of tropical and summer garden fruits. That tanginess persists and spreads, and the wine takes on honeyed overtones as well as some more grounded flavors before melding invisibly into a refreshing finish. You get Grigio with a personality, not a bland Gris masquerading as a spumante Italian. Get some in hand for the first warm days of spring, and imagine that it's already summer.
Reviewed March 23, 2007 by Thom Elkjer.
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The Wine
Winery: Brassfield Estate Winery |
The Reviewer
Thom Elkjer
Thom Elkjer has been reviewing wines professionally for more than ten years. He has contributed to Wine Spectator and Wine Enthusiast, served as Wine Editor for Wine Country Living and is Wine Editor for WineCountry.Com. He also writes for newspapers and magazines in the U.S. and Europe and judges at major international wine competitions. |