Wines made from Pinot gris grapes of Black Sea
Discover the best wines made with Pinot gris as a single variety or as a blend of Black Sea.
Rich, ample whites with a golden robe, showing aromas of pear, quince, honey, smoke, ginger and spice. Made as structured dry wines (Alsace AOC), off-dry and sumptuous late-harvest sweet (vendange tardive, sélection de grains nobles). Lighter and crisper in Italy as Pinot Grigio (Veneto, Friuli). Also in Germany (Grauburgunder), Hungary (Szürkebarát) and Oregon. A grey mutation of Pinot Noir.
Vast transnational zone around the Black Sea (Bulgaria, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Turkey), one of the world's cradles of wine (6,000 years). Signature Saperavi in dense, deep red with signature notes of black cherry, blackberry, plum, ink, leather and a spicy touch, firm tannins. Structured Bulgarian Mavrud, supple Ukrainian Odesa Black. Rkatsiteli in taut white (green apple, citrus, mineral).