Winery CottierPinot Gris
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The Pinot Gris of the Winery Cottier is in the top 0 of wines of Gladstone.
Details and technical informations about Winery Cottier's Pinot Gris.
Discover the grape variety: Chenin
Chenin, also known as pinot de la Loire Valley (pineau), is the flagship grape variety of the Loire Valley. It would have found its first origins in Anjou where it would have been cultivated by the monks of the Abbey of Saint-Maur located between Angers and Saumur since the 6th century. chenin is a great white grape variety which likes particularly the chalky soils called here stones of tufa which were used for the construction of the castles of the Loire Valley. Its bunches are medium-sized, fairly compact and its berries are more or less small. It is an early variety, which resists well to diseases. Chenin has the particularity of being able to participate as well in the elaboration of dry white wines as of sweet white wines or sparkling wines. Perfectly structured by the acidity, elegant, with a complex nose and aromas of yellow fruits, dry fruits, citrus fruits, white flowers, honey... the wine resulting from the chenin is rather lively and nervous, which allows him a good potential of guard. Chenin covers about 10,000 hectares in France, and is very productive in South Africa where it covers more than 26,000 hectares.
Informations about the Winery Cottier
The Winery Cottier is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 6 wines for sale in the of Gladstone to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Gladstone
The wine region of Gladstone is located in the region of Wairarapa of North Island of New Zealand. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Johner Estate or the Domaine Gladstone produce mainly wines red, white and sweet. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Gladstone are Pinot noir, Pinot gris and Riesling, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Gladstone often reveals types of flavors of pineapple, passion fruit or non oak and sometimes also flavors of black fruit, red fruit or tropical fruit.
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.
The word of the wine: Fermentation
The process by which grape juice becomes wine, thanks to the action of yeasts that transform sugar into alcohol.
