ORATERRA PINOT GRIS 2024

Winery notes (2024 Vintage)
"The 2024 season was a contrast to 2023, coming with a sting – or in this case, a grand finale – at the end. It was a splendid season, and the general feeling is that 2024 will be remembered alongside 2013, 2001 and 1998 as an outstanding year.

The aromatic profile is complex and distinctively “other” fruit. The wine transports you to a place where one experiences potentially unexplored territories of colour and feeling. The richness and decadence of the nose are unmistakable and laced with white flowers like daphne, clover and Christmas lilies. If the acidity in the Chardonnay 2024 is a river, here with the Pinot Gris it is a spring. The wine bubbles up to the surface, gushing out over the palate. There is acidity and plenty of tannins that rally to give order and structure. But the anarchy is stronger. There is not one direction in which this wine flows. It is dynamic; it pulls and draws with voluptuous weight and buoyancy.

Hand-harvested fruit was pressed the following day, cold. After a light settling, the juice was racked into large 600-litre oak barrels for a long and slow spontaneous ferment over 18 months. It was then transferred into a stainless-steel vessel before being bottled, unfined, in December 2025."

95/100 Emma Jenkins MW, Decanter UK, August 2025 (2024 Vintage)
"Layered, complex, with orchard fruits, spice and honey, dry, rich in fruit with a very fine texture. Thoughtful, elegant and very delicious. Wilco Lam likes decadence but not flamboyance in his Pinot Gris, and has admirably walked that particular knife’s edge with the 2024 vintage. Cellar, if you can resist its immediate charms. Organic."