Balance Winemaker’s Selection
Pinot Grigio
WINE DESCRIPTION
This wine tempts with enticing aromas of melon which leads to a feast of fresh, lingering flavours of green apple and pear finished with a crisp acidity.
VINEYARDS
The vineyards lie in deep red soils ensuring excellent water-retention and adding structure and fullness to the wines.
WINEMAKING TECHNIQUES
Cold skin maceration was carried out for six hours before the free run juice was left to ferment in stainless steel tanks for three weeks at 12°C. The wine was left on the gross lees where batonnage was applied for a week. It was then racked and left on the fine lees till right before bottling.
VINTAGE CONDITIONS
The 2022 season will be remembered for the initial cool weather conditions that made ripening very slow. Phenolic ripeness occurred later and that lead to longer maturation time in the vineyards, creating exiting wines that are full and complex.
FOOD PAIRING
A perfect partner to food especially creamy bacon carbonara and seafood Laska.
 
APPELLATION: Western Cape, South Africa • VARIETIES: 100% Pinot GrigioHARVEST DATE: March • VINTAGE: 2021 • ALC: 12% • RS: 1.8g/l • PH: 3.4 • TA: 6.1g/l