Tasting Notes - Latitude Pinot Gris 2006

Fruit for this wine is sourced from selected sites around New Zealand's South Island. A sunshine yellow colour, the aroma is somewhat closed with a little tropical fruit coming through. The palate is quite mouth filling and viscous to the extent the wine has a cloying feel to it. A sugary, sweet palate of melon and mango fruit with a bitter grapefruit finish and an astringent aftertaste. A touch of sweetness can be pleasing in a pinot gris but too much and the wine becomes sickly and flabby especially with the lack of acidity to balance it out.