Winery Palliser Estate - The Griffin

Winery Palliser EstateThe Griffin

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(Average of the reviews for all vintages combined and from several consumer review sources)
Tasters consider this wine to be one of the best in the region.
The The Griffin of Winery Palliser Estate is a sparkling wine from the region of Martinborough of North Island.
This wine is a blend of 2 varietals which are the Chardonnay and the Pinot noir.
This wine generally goes well with pork, vegetarian or poultry.
The The Griffin of the Winery Palliser Estate is in the top 60 of wines of Martinborough.

Wine flavors and olphactive analysis

Wine with microbio taste

yeast

On the nose the The Griffin of Winery Palliser Estate in the region of North Island often reveals types of flavors of apples, tree fruit or citrus fruit and sometimes also flavors of nectarine.

Details and technical informations about Winery Palliser Estate's The Griffin.

Grape varieties
Region/Great wine region
Great wine region
Style of wine
Alcohol
12.5°
Allergens
Contains sulfites

Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay

The white Chardonnay is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches, and small grapes. White Chardonnay can be found in many vineyards: South West, Burgundy, Jura, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Beaujolais, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Armagnac, Lorraine, Alsace, Provence & Corsica.

Last vintages of this wine

The Griffin - 2016
In the top 60 of of Martinborough wines
Average rating: 411110
The Griffin - 2015
In the top 60 of of Martinborough wines
Average rating: 4.111110

The best vintages of The Griffin from Winery Palliser Estate are 2015, 2016

Informations about the Winery Palliser Estate

The winery offers 28 different wines.
Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is in the top 15 of the best estates in the region
It is located in Martinborough in the region of North Island

The Winery Palliser Estate is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 27 wines for sale in the of Martinborough to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top wine North Island
In the top 3000 of of New Zealand wines
In the top 70 of of Martinborough wines
In the top 15000 of sparkling wines
In the top 250000 wines of the world

The wine region of Martinborough

The wine region of Martinborough is located in the region of Wairarapa of North Island of New Zealand. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Kusuda or the Domaine Craggy Range produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Martinborough are Pinot noir, Pinot gris and Riesling, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Martinborough often reveals types of flavors of cherry, nutmeg or tomatoes and sometimes also flavors of dark chocolate, exotic spice or underbrush.


The wine region of North Island

New-zealand/north-island/northland">Northland, as its name suggests, is New Zealand's northernmost wine-producing region, around four hours' drive northwest of the country's largest city, Auckland. Most of the Northland region's wineries are situated on the east coast, particularly around the Bay of Islands and the Karikari Pensinula, with another cluster on the west coast near Kaitaia. The region's red wines are mostly produced from Syrah, Pinotage">Pinotage and the Hybrid variety Chambourcin. Chardonnay leads the way for white wine grape varieties; Pinot Gris, Viognier and Sauvignon Blanc are among the other varieties cultivated here.

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The word of the wine: Soft

Sweet wine containing between 30 and 50 grams of residual sugar. A sweet wine is made from very ripe grapes but without being affected by botrytis cinerea and without being raisined. This term can also be applied to a dry wine that is smooth and fat in the mouth.

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