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The Little Black Stone range is from vineyards in the Waihopai Valley region of Marlborough. It is a range which shows how excellent vineyard and fruit management provide for best fruit flavors, and how it transpires into the bottle to give ripe, luscious fruit flavors and palate weight. The best wine begins with great grapes from the vineyards. The winery lightly presses the grapes to retain the delicate but full flavored juice. They then ferment with aromatic yeast at cold temperatures to give the wine a depth of palate, and also let the aromatics develop the inherent and unique characteristics and personality of the fruit into the bottle. This is the benchmark for Little Black Stone wines. Grapes from vineyards in the Waihopai region of Marlborough inevitably arrive at the winery ripe and full of traditional Marlborough flavors. This vintage was no exception. This enabled the winemakers to gently craft the wine to develop and highlight the inherent ripe, rounded fruit flavors of shite stone fruit and passion fruit flavours with a touch of honey and rose on the palate that gives way to a lingering finish reminiscent of a warm Marlborough's summer day. Pinot Gris literally means "green wine." It gets its name from the fact that it is one of the few grapes that actually has a greenish tinge to it. If you were to crush the grapes and allow a little contact between the juice and the skin, you would actually see a greenish edge in the wine. Pioneers in horticulture and agriculture in the region since the 1800s, the Drummonds now use their land-savvy and more than a century of local knowledge passed down from generation to generation to craft their own wines of distinction. This Pinot Gris is best enjoyed with lightly creamy pasta dishes of seafood or chicken where the roundedness of the wine compliments the cream style sauce. For an interesting sweeter match, a creamy style blue cheese with fresh pear is delightful. June 2012 Vintners Series Newsletter (.pdf)
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