Meyer-Fonne Pinot Gris Reserve 2017-White Wine-World Wine

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Meyer-Fonne Pinot Gris Reserve 2017

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The 2017 Pinot Gris Réserve offers direct, intense and elegant aromas of ripe and orchard fruits along with discreet but telltale smoky aromas and crushed stones. In the mouth it is fresh, vibrant and, as always, shows good clarity and definition. It is an elegant wine with a full body, intense and ripe fruit and it is lifted by the perfect amount of refreshing acidity, as well as a lingering grip and salinity. It has 7 grams of residual sugar so not totally dry but dry tasting - in Germany their top level dry wines are labelled Großes Gewächs and those can bottled with up to 9 grams residual sugar.

Type	White Wine
Varietal(s)	Pinot Gris/Grigio
Country	France
Region	Alsace
Brand	Meyer-Fonne
Vintage	2017

Alsatian wine

Alsace is a unique wine region in North Eastern France, bordering Germany and having also been under German control for much of its existence. Due to this influence, unlike other French regions, wines from Alsace are mostly single varietal bottlings and are also labelled with the variety. They also are legally required to use a tall slimmer bottle called flûtes d'Alsace, that is also commonly seen with German wines.

Almost all the wine produced in the region is white (90%) except for Pinot Noir which is used mainly for sparkling wine. Alsace is most known for its Riesling, which is dry, fresh and floral in its youth but develops complex mineral and flint character with age. Following behind is Gewurztraminer with signature spice and beautiful lychee aromatics. The smell of this wine is intoxicating, it is used to make dry but also late harvest dessert wines. Pinot Gris is also a prized variety of the region with its combination of crisp acidity and savory spice as well as ripe stone fruit flavours.

In Autumn humidity builds up to facilitate the development of “noble rot” to produce late-picked sweet wines. In Alsace there are two classifications for late harvest wines: Vendange Tardive (VT) and Sélection de Grains Nobles (SGN). VT for regular late harvest wines and SGN meaning grapes affected by noble rot.

Other varieties grown here include Pinot Blanc, Muscat, Auxerrois, Chasselas and Sylvaner.