The Forbes have been growing fruit for generations, they've won many accolades around the national wine show circuit and supplied grapes to Southcorp for some of Australia's most favourite and memorable vintages. In their quest to craft the essential expression of Australian Pinot Gris, they have collated parcels of hand picked grapes from the balmy, elevated, cool ripening climes of Adelaide Hills. Juicy and decidedly varietal, Zilzie is vibrant with crisp orchard fruit characters and a brisk minerality before finishing, intense, savoury and refreshingly dry.

Yellow Tail have been at the forefront of planting and developing dedicated vineyards under the sunny climes of Riverina, chosen sites which are trained to grow the voluptuous Italian varietals. A refreshing and flavourful, satisfying white wine with restorative expressions of orchard fruits with almond, pinenuts and limoncello, [yellow tail] Pinot Grigio is lacking nothing except maybe sunshine and good times. Serve chilled at every opportunity, it makes perfect company to your favourite Al fresco cuisine on a warm summer's evening.

Yealands Seaview Vineyard is exposed to some of the toughest growing conditions in Marlborough, high sunshine and billowing winds wind, cool nights and low rainfalls for a smaller, thicker skinned Pinot Gris of exciting intensity. Fruit from the relatively flat, coastal L6M block, provides a pure mineral elegance to the structural backbone. Parcels from E6 block, picked off a sheltered north facing slope, contributes luscious ripe pear and quince characters. A drier, food friendly style of alluring lychee appeal and charming spiced pear complexity.

Assembled and fashioned to the timeless restorative of Alsace varietals, albeit in an exhilerating new world style, Pinot Gris, Riesling and Gewurztraminer, are concurrently harvested, crushed and destemmed, a gentle pressing separates the free run juices into fermenters, the solids into a mix of 1000L oak oval tuns and 225L French barriques for natural vinification and course of textural lees stirring battonage. Brimming with lychees, mandarin and spiced ginger pear, its underlying textural richness makes Yealands a cinch alongside the perfect crackling pork roast.

Y Series are fresh and flavoursome fruit driven wines of quality and consistency, expressing the true regional character of South Australia's most renowned viticultural precincts. Yalumba have allocated vast resources for the development of vineyards which specialize in the more esoteric varietals. Their efforts have been rewarded with some of Australia's finest examples of Pinot Grigio. An effusive wine with a balance of fruit and kernel characters, textural viscosity and bright citrus acidity.

Sandro Mosele is one of Victoria's most eminent winemakers, a maestro of Mornington and craftsman behind the success of the highly prestigious Kooyong and Port Phillip estates. To Moselle, winemaking is as much a science as it is art, endeavouring to maintain the balance of ecosystem and respecting the divine nature of terroir. Moselle has an eye for the land, he's applied his efforts to the fruit of a picturesque, boutique vineyard located at Merricks on the Peninsula, an auspiciously positioned site which yields a singular quality of Pinot Gris.

Welcome to Block 2 of the Yabby Estate vineyard at Tuerong, the viticulture here is all about persistence and vigilance, coupled with a deep seated passion for making supreme wine. The combination of a warm site in a cool region means that Pinot Gris ripens in good order to produce wines of outstanding quality. Crop levels are carefully managed to produce the consumate Pinot Gris. Fruit is all hand picked, whole bunch pressed and wild yeast fermented, followed by a course of age on yeast lees to infuse textural palate richness.

When Wither Hills make wine, they place great emphasis on striking a balance, to ensure that palate and nose, texture and complexity, all make an equal contribution to the experience. It is to this end, that the talented team, turn to the most salubrious Wairau Valley vineyards for the pick of the Marlborough crop. The Pinot Gris of choice, to share around the patio, watching the sun go down, over a platter of tasty nibbles, to the accompaniement of merry repartee.

Cool balmy climes and close husbanding of vines are essential for splendid Pinot Gris wines which engage the palate while calling for cuisine. Pampered parcels of grey Pinot grapes are treated to a natural indigenous yeast ferment, a course of maturation on fluffy lees and term of age in fine French oak, bottled unfined for maximum sauvage. Steeped on skins for optimal uptake of the distinctive Gris blush, its comely copper hues and Anzac biscuit nose, precedes a food friendly palate of baked cloven pears and crunchy Granny Smith acidity.

Half Chardonnay, the balance in Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Gris, this is not the first time that such an unlikely cépage of fruit have been assembled into a single wine. The results are always revitalizing and delish, Witchmount can rely on the finest parcels of fragrant white grapes to achieve an engagingly aromatic wine of lithe guava, peanut brittle and lychee perfumes. Have it chilled to serve alongside pork and fennel lasagna or a nice smoked trout, the stylish mix of grapes make a wine of juicy textural grip and crisp natural acidity.

A delicious new world interpretation of Italy's most food friendly white wine grape, yet with more body than it's continental siblings, fully aromatic with heightened flavour profiles and pronounced varietal fruit. King Valley offers the ideal aspects and most conducive microclimes for growing Pinot Grigio, so very similar to the grape's original home in Veneto and Trentino. Generous in flavour and highly textural, in the tradition of the finest old world styles of Pinot Grigio, Windy Peak is just perfect for bringing out the best in all good food.

An exciting style, vinified from a complex cepage of varietal grapes by the ever progressive Windy Peak. The crispness of Sauvignon Blanc is toned down by the warming stonefruit flavours of Pinot Grigio and dry flintyness of Semillon. The mix is further revved up by some Sardininan savouriness and zest, courtesy of a splash Vermentino. Match Windy Peak with pasta and shellfish, a Vietnamese pho or marinated and barbequed rosemary quail.

The gently undulating terroirs of Adelaide Hills provide a magnificent mesoclime for the full development of luscious white varietal grapes. It is here amongst the ancient red gums of Woodside, that the viticultural team can prune and manage vines to yield small berries of ripe and juicy Pinot Gris, bursting with succulent flavours and the most delicious fruit esters. An intriguing blend of characters ranging from green pear to white peach, a subtle layering of texture that delivers all the aromaticness and complexity which make Pinot Gris such an engaging and topical style of food friendly white.

King Valley is to Pinot Grigio what the Veneto region is to the invigorating white styles of northeast Italy. Tobacco farmers established vineyards here decades ago to make good wine for their own consumption, the affinity of the Victorian Alps to Italian varietals made a new home for the fresh and engaging Pinot Grigio. The pick of our KIng Valley samplings, an outstanding Pinot Grigio by Victoria's most accomplished viticultural team, a five Halliday star winery, 100% guaranteed to please, arrives fully labelled, without any delivery fee to every destination in Australia.

A lively and discernibly Australian construct of Pinot Grigio, fashioned by an estate that's put a vibrant new world flourish into an already highly stylised old world grape. Warburn collates the best parcels of Pinot Grigio from vineyards that are trained to grow the choicest clones of this esoteric varietal.

The Nelson River region, at the top northwest corner of New zealand's South Island, is blessed by high sunshine hours which stimulate the vines into yielding the ripest fruit, followed by cool evenings which contribute a fresh natural acidity. One of the higher profile Nelson wineries, Waimea Estates has grown quickly in size and stature since its first vineyards were planted in 1993. From parcels of fruit grown to the stony alluvial soils of Waimea Plains, a pretty and stimulating Pinot Gris wine, endowed with varietal textures and brimming with Nelson River charm.

Marlborough's Seddon Vineyard is a spectacular site, sheltered from the southern elements within a very warm mesoclime. Fruit is all hand picked throughout the chill of early morning and treated to a minimalist vinification to preserve the urgency of fully ripened Pinot Gris on the vine. Aromatic with pear, cinnamon and floral spice, finely textured and judiciously off dry, elegantly defined with exemplary balance between crisp acidity, textures and intensity of fruit, an engagingly compex, lingering finish.

Villa Maria possess the magic touch with Pinot Gris, regularly clearing international wine events of prestigious trophies. Private Bin has been included in the Decanter Top 50 Best Under £10 and identified as a Decanter favourite. Villa Maria retain the finest vineyards throughout New Zealand's grand expansive viticultural precincts, affording the team every opportunity to collate harvests at the zenith of flavour development. Exciting characters of lychee and pinenut, apples and melon, a crisp and racy acidity. Meet your Maria at a Trattoria, for an evening of gaiety, gorgonzola and Gris.

Villa Maria selects clones of Pinot Gris that produce lower yields with smaller bunches, which translates into more concentrated flavours. The viticulturists spend a great deal of time monitoring and adjusting the crop levels to make sure the vines are carrying the right amount of grapes. Low yields of two to three kilos per vine, timely leaf plucking and canopy management activities concentrate the flavours in the grapes. Although this leads to a smaller harvest, the emphasis is placed on quality not quantity, culminating in a fully opulent Pinot Gris wine.

A fully accessible, classically structured Tuscan, fashioned to contemporary tastes, with a history that dates back to 1931, the long tradition of Villa Antinori's Trebbiano dominant whites have evolved throughout the course of history. Villa Antinori is vinified around a backbone of Trebbiano, to which components of Malvasia, Pinot Grigio and Bianco are included for elegance and style. A delicious white Chianti to appreciate while young, best enjoyed, slightly chilled alongside your favourite cuisine.

Vavasour pioneered viticulture in the Awatere Valley, under the imposing presence of Tapuae-O-Uenuku. Vavasour’s vineyard is noteworthy for its wide diurnal temperature swings, it's the combination of soils and clime which shape the inimitable character of Vavasour wine. The refined elegance of their Pinot Gris shows why many others have followed the lead. Sweetly spiced on the nose and palate, yet pleasingly dry, soft savoury aromas are reflected by intensely concentrated flavours on the palate.

An exciting cepage of Pinot Gris and Sauvignon Blanc, exhibiting lovely spiced fruit characters and crunchy expressions of the orchard that are so titillating, your friends will be in fine spirits even before lunch arrives! You'll find each drop just perfect for refreshing every palate just in time for the next sip.

The Murphys were among the first settlers to establish vineyards around Mildura. The family moved to Trentham Cliffs in 1960 and re-developed a site which was part of a larger sheep station, irrigated by the nearby Murray River. The first vintages were destined for fortified wines, as was the market demand of the time. Blocks were later planted to Pinot Gris, which performed brilliantly in the rich red loam over limestone soils. A crisp and fresh table wine, just lovely alongside garlic recipes or everyone's favourite chicken caesar.

Tim Adams can rely on harvests from Valley Clare's bravest vineyards to source the finest parcels of Pinot Gris. Rather than removing the distinctive grey tint of the grape's skin, Tim Adams chooses to retain this charming feature of Pinot Gris in the finished wine. Vinified from the complete pressings of fruit, the totality of which have made a remarkable contribution to a soundly structured Pinot Gris, the pinkish bronze hue sets the stage for an alluring nose, followed by a rich, robust palate and long, memorable finish.

Thorn-Clark nurture some of the Eden Valley's best Pinot Gris vines. Barrel fermented, richer and fuller than most Pinot Gris, currently only produced in very small quantities, an extended period on lees has brought savouryness and round, mouth filling body.

New Zealanders can make other great wines apart from Sauvignon Blanc. Parcels of Pinot Gris collated from some of the finest Marlborough vineyards, trained to yield harvests of intensely flavoured fruit, are at the heart of Ta_Ku. The aim is to construct a fully engaging wine which can deliver a delectable experience in splendid quality Pinot Gris while treating the palate to an intimate taste of Marlborough. A match to mushroom risotto or a gourmande seafood caesar.

Valley Clare lends herself very well to aromatic white varietals such as Pinot Gris, by virtue of temperate climes and rich soils. Harvests from the Taylor's Victoria and Angela blocks are treated to a French style of vinification to achieve a fruit forward style with piquant complexity and cleanly drying finish that call for cuisine. Enjoy lightly chilled, whilst young and fresh, alongside walnut goats cheese flan garnished by lightly dressed rocquet.

Located on the western banks of Tamar River, forty kilometres north of Launceston, choice blocks of the Kayena Vineyard are planted to unique clones of Pinot Gris. The site yields fruit of spectacular varietal definition, great purity and refreshing acidity, all are hallmarks of a truly profound cool climate wine. The weight and flavour intensity of this elite vineyard Pinot Gris make it suitable to serve with quite richly flavoured dishes, including veal, turkey or pork.

Be My Valentine, love Juliet! T'Gallant Juliet Pinot Grigio ensures that lovers everywhere can treat each and every day as if it were Valentine's Day. Winemakers Kevin McCarthy and Kathleen Quealy are specialists at this style of wine, and initially released the Juliet Pinot Grigio to massive acclaim. Aromas of pear, honey and orange, a decadent palate, fruity and savoury notes with a delicious finish.

Kevin McCarthy and Kathleen Quealy pioneered the development of Pinot Grigio and Pinot Gris wines on the Mornington Peninsula in the late 1980s. Pinot Grigio and Gris are the same grape, how they are grown and handled throughout the vinification determines their caste into the French or Italianate styling. T'Gallant are well versed at both, the maestros of Mornington. Italian have a tendency to pick grapes earlier for a racy, savoury style. The French wait for riper flavours, developing richer palates that are complex, fuller and fatter.

The higher altitudes of Adelaide and balmy aspects of Bellarine are the pre-eminent Australian microclimes for growing Pinot Grigio. Components from good vineyards have been assembled around a core of estate grown Scotchmans Hill fruit to achieve the consummate Italianate varietal wine in refreshing, new world styling. An intense expression of pear, guava and citrus, fleshy with a mineral backbone. It displays zesty pear and citrus characters, offers great intensity and varietal complexity before lingering on a clean flavoursome finish.

True to Stoneleigh's distinctive style, this flavoursome Pinot Gris captures the essence of Marlborough, a unique terroir which gives rise to the wine's quality. The skill at vinification and the resources available to Stoneleigh's winemaking team all contribute to a Pinot Gris with its own sense of place. Crafted from ripe, intensely flavoured grapes, dry in style, beautifully balanced with good weight of fruit and refreshing acidity. Completely unwooded and unoaked, Stoneleigh is bottled young to capture the fresh aromatics of Marlborough Pinot Gris.

Sticks stands amongst Victoria's preeminent and innovative winemakers, operating out of a single site located in the heart of the picturesque Yarra Valley. Great wines begin in the vineyard, the quality of the fruit source is pivotal to the consummation of the final wine. Nobody is better positioned than Sticks Dolan, through his association with the best Yarra Valley growers, to appropriate the finest grapes. The Sticks style of Pinot Grigio is thoroughly fruit driven, eminently fresh, and marries beautifully with food.

Named for the rare and precious greenstone hidden beneath the riverbeds throughout New Zealand's South Island, Secret Stone is sculpted into a veritable gem of a wine, inspired by the ancient local secrets and traditions which are passed down from one generation to the next. Nestled within these greenstone heartlands, lies the Marlborough region, idyllically suited to white varietial grapes. Pinot Gris excels, producing richly textured wines with ripe flavours expressing the region's characteristic articulation of tropical fruits, bound by refreshing acidity.