In the Pacific Northwest, Pinot Gris is renowned as the dream match for the oily richness of salmon.
What Pinot Gris lacks in marquee value, it makes up for in sheer agreeableness.
Pinot Gris-or its wayward Italian sibling, Pinot Grigio (same grape, different name)-just might be your next white-wine love affair.
Pinot Gris is a lot of things to a lot of people, not all of them good.
Anthony Road Pinot Gris: light-bodied, dry but soft, some light fruity tones with a hint of mineral.
In the state where David Lett once maintained a lonely vigil there are now more than 90 wineries making Pinot Gris.
Pinot Gris--or its wayward Italian sibling, Pinot Grigio (same grape, different name)--just might be your next white-wine love affair.
The main varietals include Riesling, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gris, Gewurztraminer and Pinot Noir.
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Up in chilly Oregon, where they use the name "Pinot Gris, " the grape has become the state's signature white wine.
But in places where the grape aspires to greater things, Pinot Gris nearly always develops a more substantial weight, a touch of unctuousness.
Wherever it is made, the point is to let the essence of Pinot Gris-flavorful, juicy and seductively easy to sip-shine through.
Pinot Gris (pronounced "gree") is the black sheep, or anyway, the purple-brown sheep, of one of the grape world's most noble families.
Great Pinot Gris is, in that sense, very much a purist's wine.
The Pinot Gris, now lovingly cultivated on its own, began as one such "sport" (to use the breezy scientific term) of Pinot Noir.
At 1, 800 acres, Pinot Gris covers almost twice as much vineyard land there as Chardonnay, much of the best in the Willamette Valley south of Portland.
Pinot Gris does share certain Pinot family traits, however, including up-and-down yields, instant blandification when it's overcropped and a hypersensitivity to where it's planted.
You'd think we were confused about what Pinot Gris actually is.
For the adventurous, Pinot Gris and Viognier provide sublime summer drinking.
Some wineries more or less successfully give Pinot Gris oak treatment, but it works best as a light touch, an accent that doesn't bury the wine's fruit character.
But unless you are Domaine Zind-Humbrecht, Domaine Weinbach or a handful of other top Alsatian producers, that level of retail pricing is a hard sell with Pinot Gris.
"Anyone who plays games with it is trying to make it into something it's not, " states David Lett of Oregon's Eyrie Vineyards, the pioneer Pinot Gris producer in the United States.
Burgundy's growers have relegated Pinot Gris to the fringes--all but run it out of town, really--in favor of its oak-loving cousin, Chardonnay (a cross of Pinot Noir and something called Gouais Blanc).
Burgundy's growers have relegated Pinot Gris to the fringes-all but run it out of town, really-in favor of its oak-loving cousin, Chardonnay (a cross of Pinot Noir and something called Gouais Blanc).
In all the best Pinot Gris, whether produced as an Alsatian dessert wine or a crisp table wine from the foothills of the Italian Alps, the grape itself has the mojo to be the star.
Cool climate varietals (like Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Pinot Gris) thrive here thanks to our long summer days and cool nights, but we are slaves to whatever nature decides to throw us each year.
California has also managed to import some of the grape's Old World confusion factor, since the state's wineries tend to label bottles "Pinot Grigio" or "Pinot Gris" based on whim rather than wine style.
Though these wines are stylistically all over the map, many of the best Oregon Pinot Gris have settled happily into a niche somewhere between the full-bodied, powerful style of Alsace and the lighter wines of central Italy.
And unlike Chardonnay, fine Pinot Gris is not "a winemaker's wine" that can make up with cellar cosmetics (like aging in charred oak barrels and secondary fermentations) what it lacks coming in from the vineyard.
For reasons unclear to modern science, Pinot Gris differentiates itself by changing a different color (somewhere between pale brown and medium purple) when ripening side by side with Pinot Noir, and also develops its own distinctive flavor and texture.
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