Tasting Notes for Stefano Lubiana Pinot Gris from the Winery

2023 Pinot Gris Biodynamic is a small parcel of wine but LARGE in flavour. Brimming with pear, rose water, quince & Turkish fig flavours. Finishing with the perfect amount of astringency complimenting the sensational fruit element, leaving a refreshed palate.  Slightly pink in appearance this wine is sure to compliment your favourite dish.

Our Pinot Gris is grown on a gravel base soil covered in red loam with patches of riverbed silt. Facing north this soil forms part of the western bank of the Derwent river. Our Pinot Gris plot was planted in 1991, the vines now being over 30 years old. The vineyard being biodynamically farmed since 2010 with certification coming in 2013. The vine’s root system is now well established deep into the soil horizons below. The gravel element infuses a perfumed aroma and contributes savouriness and minerality to the palate. Southern Tasmania allows its crops a long and mostly mild and dry ripening period bestowing tiers of flavour. This wine’s texture is generally attributed to barrel fermentation. As well, the grape’s thick skins and the vine’s low yields, often unique to cool climate biodynamic viticulture, creates beuatiful body and structure.

Steve and Marco artfully and skillfully ferment the grapes into wine that is more akin to European Pinot Gris examples rather than those produced in Australia. This is due to small batch winemaking where the grapes are processed as soon as they are handpicked and the must is fermented on full lees in puncheons (100% 500L French oak barrels) with a portion chilled and left on skins for 2 nights. Colour, tannin and phenolics are extracted by this cold soaking technique. Rested over winter in the same puncheons, the wine is then bottled in early summer. – Stefano Lubiana Wines 

Variety: Pinot Gris

Vineyard: 100% Derwent Valley Estate grown, single block

Vineyard management: Certified Biodynamic

Geology: Mix of grey gravelly loam over gravel and red loam over old riverbed

Cellaring: 3-5 years

Stefano Lubiana 

Tasmania’s first and only certified biodynamic vineyard has been cultivating vines using biodynamic methods since 2010. This means that their wines are free of all synthetic treatments, additives and pesticides. Instead they travel the alternative path, stepping back in time and using cosmic rhythms to ensure soil regenereation as well as effective vine care through all phases of the year’s seasonal cycles.

Their much sought-after wines are the result of a passionate unrelenting quest for perfection. This passion, along with free thinking and attention to detail allows them to create wines which reflect this vision. Their focus on traditional and environmentally sensitive principals has only strengthened their desire to create wines that have a unique and distinctive character, with free-flowing elegance and quality.

(SKU: SL_PGr_CV)