Winery CooralookPinot Gris
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The Pinot Gris of the Winery Cooralook is in the top 0 of wines of Strathbogie Ranges.
Details and technical informations about Winery Cooralook's Pinot Gris.
Discover the grape variety: Merlot noir
This grape variety most certainly originates from the Bordeaux region and is registered in the Official Catalogue of vine varieties, list A1. According to genetic analyses carried out in Montpellier (Hérault), it is the result of a cross between the magdeleine noire des Charentes and the cabernet franc. It should also be noted that it is the half-brother of the côt or malbec and that it is not the black form of the white merlot, but its resemblance reminds us that it is indeed a descendant.
Informations about the Winery Cooralook
The Winery Cooralook is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 8 wines for sale in the of Strathbogie Ranges to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Strathbogie Ranges
The wine region of Strathbogie Ranges is located in the region of Central Victoria of Victoria of Australia. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Fowles Wine or the Domaine Wine X Sam - Sam Plunkett produce mainly wines white, red and sweet. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Strathbogie Ranges are Riesling, Pinot noir and Chardonnay, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Strathbogie Ranges often reveals types of flavors of earth, citrus fruit or red fruit and sometimes also flavors of non oak, microbio or vegetal.
The wine region of Victoria
Victoria is a relatively small but important Australian wine state. Located in the Southeastern corner of the continent, with a generally cool, ocean-influenced Climate, Victorian wine is remarkably diverse, producing all sorts of wines and styles in different climates. In all, the state covers almost 250,000 square kilometres (over 90,000 square miles) of land (almost the same Size as the US state of Texas), well under a quarter the size of its western neighbour, South Australia, and less than a third the size of New South Wales to the North. As such, Victoria's size - and to some extent, the state's viticultural history - can defy generalization.
News related to this wine
Flooding in south-east Australia set to hit wine production
Flood concerns have continued to hit parts of Australia, with the country’s Bureau of Meteorology warning today (17 November) that ‘major flooding’ was ongoing in communities in New South Wales, as well as along a number of rivers in Victoria. In the wine world, there were were concerns that flooding of vineyards in Victoria last month is now being repeated at some New South Wales wineries after continued spring rain in the south-east of Australia. There was even flash flooding ...
Australian winemakers lobby for Prosecco name amid EU talks
A delegation of wine producers from Victoria’s King Valley met with members of the Australian parliament in Canberra to reinforce their campaign to maintain access to the Prosecco name. Their visit follows fresh talks between Australia and the EU on a possible free trade deal, which may impact who gets to use the term Prosecco for sparkling wines in the Australian market. A spokesperson for Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade told the Sydney Morning Herald that EU negotiato ...
Hitting the right note
Last year, there was much mirth on wine Twitter about a particularly excruciating tasting note. You’re right. The wine trade needs to get out more. But still… this one was a beauty. It began well enough – really quite beautiful, in fact. But before long the imaginative descriptions were getting more ornate and strained. It moved from poetic to meaningless before finishing with a reference to Burnt Norton – the first of TS Eliot’s Four Quartets – that put it firmly in Private Eye magazine’s ...
The word of the wine: Paste
Characteristic of a thick and heavy wine with sticky tannins.
