Willm: Pinot Gris, Grand Cru Kirchberg de Barr, 2005

Rating

Quality: Recommended

Value: Average

At a glance...

Balance: Sweet, almost too sweet, but cut through with a good level of acidity.

Complexity: Warm honey-dew and caramel, but saved from being cloying by mineral undertones. Enough going on to put this wine at the upper end of recommended.

Length: Long

Alc/vol: 13%

Region: Alsace

Price: NZ$75 - purchased in NZ resaurant, so expected to pay a lot more than retail pricing *sigh*

Source: Rumours, Waikanae

Tasting Notes

After dumping the kids on a rather surprised looking Nana one night while on holiday in NZ, Pip and I headed for the closest restaurant that we knew would have top food - Rumours in Waikanae.  Any night out at the moment is a special occassion so we didn't mind spending a little bit extra on a French white that looked interesting.  Great choice as it turned out. I had the Waikanae crab cake with tomato chilli mayonaise followed by a special of the day pork belly with a fig and ginger jam.  Can't remember what Pip had - but must have been good as it was all gone before I could navigate past her cutlery to pinch some. 

PG was a great choice both for the seafood starter and the pork main. It's lighter, sweet flavours added a lot to the dishes with out overpowering them (or being overpowered), while the acidity cut through the rich fat of the pork.

Couldn't fit dessert, but luckily didn't need to as the wine was more than enough to count as that course as well.