2024 Yoyo Pinot Grigio
2024 Yoyo Pinot Grigio
VARIETY: Pinot Grigio vs Pinot Gris. It’s the same grape, with slightly different winemaking styles. Wines marked Pinot Grigio are typically made in an Italian style – fruit picked early to retain freshness that produce dry, crisp and light bodied wines with citrus aromas. Gris can be richer, more full-bodied and sometimes sweet. We’ve sourced our fruit from Wrattonbully in the South East on South Australia for the first time in 2024, a climate similar to Friuli-Venezia Giulia in Northern Italy, our favourite region for this variety. The limestone geology of Wrattonbully is also comparable to the limestone plateau of much of Friuli.
TASTES LIKE: Green apple, fennel bulb and fragrant musk
DRINK WITH: Fish Taco’s and a mango salsa
Vegan friendly
VINTAGE SUMMARY: This growing season was cool and wet and long. Vintage started 3 to 4 weeks later than “usual”. Our first parcel of fruit was the Bastardo coming in on February 21st and our last was Nero d’Avola on the 23rd April. As vines avoided the real heat of summer, we didn’t have one day above 40c the long slow ripening period gave perfect conditions for gradual flavour development and excellent, lovely natural acidity.
2023 Vintage ticked all the boxes.
WINEMAKING : Skin contact was kept to a minimum. Fermentation was spontaneous using wild yeast. No added acid.Cool fermentation temperature to retain freshness and crisp aromatics.
WINEMAKER : Andy Coppard