I was drinking Pinot Gris before orange wine was trendy. How about you? The OG skin-contact grape, here marketed as “rosé” in probably a smart move. Gotta cover all bases, ya know? Dank and dusty nose, crushed velvet vegetal and compost over a butterscotch sort of milk chocolate base.

Rich and fluid over the tongue, a sharp acidic grip chalking and charging all points. Aged-wine in texture–I really would have pegged this as significantly older blind–there’s a patina to the fruit charmingly dense and reduced: polished–of sorts–but still gratingly sharp in forefront and finish. Ripe peach and green apricot vie for fruit-stardom, the final thought a trickle of rich liquid down the throat. It drinks better in the colder regions of white-wine appreciation. Not a super-complex wine, but does it need to be?

2020 DEUX PUNX ‘Rosé’ Pinot Gris Clarksburg California 10.3

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