Wine Specs
Harvest Date
August 28 and September 9, 2023
Bottling Date
January 17, 2024
2023 Pinot Gris
Wine Profile
Tasting Notes
Our 2023 Foundation Series Pinot Gris reflects the brilliance of the season with aromas of dry pear and
stone fruits. The palate leads with a streak of minerality and displays prominent notes of lemon zest and
Granny Smith apple. Pair this vintage with burrata surrounded by a delectable summer-berry salad.
Vineyard Notes
The winter of 2022 set up less-than-ideal projections for 2023; however, the 2023 growing season at Hester Creek was everything that one could hope for in producing outstanding grapes for our wines. Growing Degree Days (GDD) reached 1835, making it the highest accumulation of GDDs for the months of April through August. Harvest began earlier than usual on August 25th with Pinot Noir and ended on October 1st with Cabernet Sauvignon. This compacted season became a story of quality over quantity and allowed our winemaking team to create new wines for our portfolio, craft variations of existing wines and use techniques like whole cluster pressing on 90% of our white wines and allowing for extended maceration periods on our red wines. Overall, the Hester Creek wine coming out of the 2023 season is an example of excellence rooted in the South Okanagan terroir.
Winemaker Notes
Hand harvested from a variety of vineyards in the South Okanagan, including Block 5 of our historical estate property, our 2023 offering of Pinot Gris was hand sorted and whole cluster pressed to provide an added layer of fresh complexity that preserves the primary fruit characteristics in this beloved BC-grown varietal. The 2023 vintage presents a dry white wine that preserves the lush aromas and flavours which result from a long fermentation period of 20 days at 120C in stainless steel tanks. After fermentation, the lots were blended and aged for four months, then bottled in January of 2024.
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