Located on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island, Hawkes Bay has been producing wine of the highest quality for over a hundred years. It's five rivers and significant protecting mountain range to the west provide a consistent water supply and climate. Stony, free draining soils produce distinctive, deeply fruited wine of refinement, structure and texture. In the vineyard Pinot Gris stands out for the distinct purple hue of its ripened berries. Braided River's winemaking team are passionate about encouraging the varietal's unique character to flourish and evolve.

What fine Pinot Gris that Adelaide Hills can make. Crisp mountain breezes meander around the veritable maze of sub valleys and undulating hillsides, stimulating the vines and enhancing exotic citrus nut varietal characters in the grapes. Bleasdale have taken their pick of fruit from the finest vineyards planted to loamy, low fertility sands which are ideal for Pinot Gris. After a quick trek back to the Bleasdale wineworks, fruit is treated to a prompt vinification and early bottling to retain the vitally luminous expression of Adelaide Hills Pinot Gris.

The Adelaide Hills are a pastoral paradise for olives groves, Bird In Hand have been rewarded with the highest international accolades for the excellence of their fruit and cold pressed oils. Pinot Gris is a variety that thrives amongst the olive groves, an exquisite aperitif style that's sensational with food. Hand picked and whole bunch pressed to capture nothing but the purest juices, its fragrant white peach, lychee and pear bouquet reveals just a hint of savoury and musk, the perfect accompaniement to delicate white meats or terrines, pheasant recipes or quail.

After founding Mornington's eminent Moorooduc Estate and contract winemaking for Mornington's leading brands, Richard McIntyre established a small family operated vineyard, with a view to producing limited yields of the most exquisite small batch wines. A single estate parcel of dry grown Pinot Gris at Main Ridge is hand picked and fastidiously sorted before being treated to a minimalist vinification. The inclusion of a dash Gewurztraminer infuses wonderfully delicate perfumes, candied pear and autumnal spice, a mouth filling style of juicy, creamy ripeness.

McWilliam's has long been a major player and staunch supporter of the emerging Hilltops as a premiere viticultural precinct, retaining some of the region's most salubrious vineyards. Career farmer and veteran RAAF fighter pilot Peter Robinson planted his Barwang property to cuttings procured from McWilliams in 1969. The prodigal vines returned to McWillians stewardship and today contribute the backbone of fruit for Barwang Pinot Gris.

The founders of Babich were visionaries who succeeded in bringing the wines of New Zealand to the world. A collation of fruit from several splendid Marlborough vineyards is assembled into a rich, full bodied Pinot Gris, offering brisk vitality and exquisite style. Partially barrel fermented for richness and complexity, Babich exhibits ripe stonefruit and spice flavours before a soft, medium dry finish. The Marlborough white of choice to accompany the freshest fish, a match to crumbed and shallow fried snapper fillets.

The choicest parcels of Pinot Gris are harvested from high altitude King Valley vineyards where the long and sunny autumn days combine with cool nights to yield fully ripened grapes exhibiting crisp fruity acids and well defined varietal expression. The winemaking team at Armchair Critic have taken great effort to fashion an exemplary Pinot Gris without the influence of any oak, to showcase all the prime fruit characters which make this innately food friendly style of wine the first choice to accompany white meats, seafoods and risotto.

The fleshy voluptuousness and mouth filling generosity of Central Otago Pinot Gris, hand picked off the top terrace of Amisfield's vineyard, grapes are all gently pressed for a long cool ferment, partially in a selection of seasoned French oak barrels for roundness and complexity, followed by a term of age on light sedimentery lees. A textural and persistent Pinot Gris style,saturated with all the classic varietal characters, spices, shortbread and white fleshy pear, the mouth filling richness of barrel ferments, magnificently balanced with perfectly pitched acidity and delicate residual sweetness.

Amisfield are situated in the southern most wine growing region of New Zealand, at Lowburn in Central Otago, just north of the 45th Parallel. High altitudes and a cool climate, long summers and clean glacial soils, translate into limited yields of the finest aromatic, single vineyard Chenin Blanc. Amisfield is all about the voluptuous expression of Chenin Blanc and preserving the virtue of site, articulating pure and refined aromatics, while ensuring balance of residual sugar to crisp acidity.

A pure Chenin Blanc wine, from fruit grown exclusively to premiere vineyards within the elite coterie of superior Margaret River vineyards. Grapes are picked at varying degrees of ripeness to form a complex yet harmonious palate which shows elegant fruit characteristics, whilst exhibiting the flavour intensity of riper, late picked berries. Full of freshness and vitality, the lifted nose makes an ideal aperitif, its engaging palate and textural finish merits accompaniement to delicate white meats and fleshy fishes.