Garagiste Merricks Pinot Gris 2025In Barney Flanders's hands, Pinot Gris can be a wonderful thing. Time after time, you can expect a mouthwatering pure Gris with texture, structure and balance, and the 2025 is right in the zone. The fruit is sourced from 28 year old, northeast facing vines rooted in the signature grey loam and red ferrosols soils of Merricks. The majority of the fruit is pressed as bunches to old puncheons with full solids and kept on lees, while a small portion of

duck or vegetable driven dishes

It has excellent structure and freshness yet tremendous elegance

lemongrass

Chassagne Montrachet and Saint Aubin

it is medium-bodied and refined

with fine tannins

It has the structure you’d expect from Cabernet

sourced from one of the estate’s most prized cru sites just bordering Serralunga

Biodynamic farmed to nth degree

Shaun Crinion has been on a mission to make Yarra Valley Cabernet cool again

Yalumba is Australia’s oldest family-owned winery

and a persistent