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Cameron occupies a different territory. John Paul's estate in the Dundee Hills grows Pinot Gris in the same volcanic Jory soils and cool, marine-influenced climate that define the region's finest Pinot Noir, and he treats it accordingly: as raw material for a serious, extended-aging, skin-contact wine. The Dundee Hills AVA sits at 200 to 450 meters elevation on iron-rich volcanic basalt, with mornings cool enough to hold acidity and afternoons warm enough to develop full phenolic ripeness — the conditions that make Willamette Valley distinctive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe Wine\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e100% Pinot Gris, late-harvested, fermented on skins for one month in amphora, then aged for approximately two years in neutral barrels. The inspiration is Stanislao Radikon and the skin-fermented Pinot Grigio tradition of Friuli — a wine that uses the grape's natural color and phenolic potential rather than stripping them out. The result bears no resemblance to standard Pinot Gris: deep amber-cherry hue, earthy red and blue-fruit aromas, with cherry, citrus zest, sarsaparilla, and cola on the palate, light tannins, and a long savory finish. Serve chilled at 55 to 58°F.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe People\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCameron Winery was founded in 1984 by John Paul, a scientist with a doctorate in marine biochemistry who chose winemaking over an academic career. The estate in the Dundee Hills is dry-farmed without irrigation — a commitment to restraint that runs through the entire operation. Cameron was making textural, age-worthy wines long before such things were fashionable in Oregon. The Supernatural Rouge de Gris is the most extreme expression of that philosophy: a wine that asks the drinker to set aside expectations about what Pinot Gris is supposed to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood Pairing\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoast pork with dried fruit and warm spices, duck confit with cherries and thyme, aged charcuterie with pickled vegetables, or grilled salmon with a soy-ginger glaze. Serve chilled. A wine that rewards those willing to meet it on its own terms.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Few \u0026 Far Wine Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50131995263199,"sku":null,"price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0439\/7436\/1248\/files\/P6180431.jpg?v=1781833510"},{"product_id":"dario-princic-sivi-pinot-grigio-2020","title":"Dario Princic Sivi Pinot Grigio 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Land\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 1947 border settlement drew a line straight through these hills, leaving Oslavia's Slovene-speaking farm families on the Italian side, a few hundred meters from Slovenia. Sivi is simply the Slovenian word for gray, the name Pinot Grigio carries at home in this bilingual corner of the Collio, above the town of Gorizia. Prinčič's Pinot Grigio grows on clay and limestone parcels within the estate's roughly 10 hectares of steep, southeast-facing, hand-worked vineyards, from vines the importer lists at an average of 60 years old. Warm days off the Adriatic and cool air from the Julian Alps stretch ripening into a harvest picked entirely by hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Wine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePinot Grigio's skins are not white; at ripeness they turn a coppery gray-pink, which is why a single week of maceration yields a wine the color of polished copper. The 2020 fermented spontaneously in open wooden vats with no temperature control, the cap punched down by hand for seven days on the skins, then aged 30 months in old oak casks and three more in steel before bottling unfiltered with 15 to 20 mg\/l of sulfur, the only addition. Blood-orange peel, apricot, and bruised apple run into black-tea tannin and a saline finish that pulls you back to the glass. In the Collio, 2020 brought a warm, dry summer refreshed by September rains and an unhurried harvest that began in early September, and the vintage's balance shows in the wine's freshness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe People\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDario Prinčič has farmed without synthetic chemicals since 1988, founded his winery in Oslavia in 1993, and moved his entire production to skin maceration by 2000, following a path he helped establish alongside neighbors Gravner and Radikon. Nothing here is hurried: this Sivi spent nearly three years in the cellar before release, and the estate's steep, dense plantings are trimmed through summer to four or five bunches per vine for concentration. This is a benchmark of skin-contact Pinot Grigio, the maximalist answer to the neutral pinot grigio that made the grape famous.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFood Pairing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProsciutto di San Daniele, Friuli's own, wants exactly this: salt against orchard fruit, fat against tannin. Seared duck breast with a cherry pan sauce meets the wine's structure the way a light red would. Porcini risotto with plenty of Parmigiano picks up the earthy, steeped-tea side, and miso-glazed salmon plays to its salinity. An orange wine from Friuli with the grip to anchor the whole table, from the salumi board through the main course.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Benny and Zoid","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51288829886687,"sku":null,"price":58.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0439\/7436\/1248\/files\/P8280223.jpg?v=1787961526"},{"product_id":"via-alpina-pinot-grigio-2025","title":"Via Alpina Pinot Grigio 2025","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Land\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost Pinot Grigio is grown on flat, high-yield plains and tastes like it. Via Alpina comes from the Colli Orientali del Friuli, the eastern hills of Friuli on the Slovenian border, where vineyards climb rolling slopes and are often terraced. The soil is ponca, the local name for layered marl and sandstone, which breaks down into a lean, mineral ground that gives Friulian whites their structure. The Julian Alps shelter the hills from the north while the Adriatic sits to the south, and the swing between warm days and crisp nights holds acidity and aroma in the grapes. The name means \"Alpine Way,\" a nod to the route through Friuli toward the mountains. Pinot Grigio from Friuli's hill sites is a different wine from the supermarket version, and this is a clear example.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Wine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Via Alpina Pinot Grigio 2025 is 100% Pinot Grigio from vines 12 to 25 years old. The grapes are destemmed and pressed gently with no skin maceration, which keeps the wine pale and clean rather than copper-tinted. It then spends eight months in stainless steel on its fine lees with regular stirring, which adds texture and a rounder mouthfeel while steel keeps the fruit fresh. The 2025 season in Friuli started with a wet May, then a very hot June, and by early July vineyards were running up to ten days ahead of normal, pointing to an early harvest. The style is pineapple, passion fruit, mango skin and honeysuckle, with a clean, focused, mineral palate and a crisp finish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe People\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVia Alpina is the everyday label of Giampaolo Venica, the fourth generation of the family behind Venica \u0026amp; Venica, one of Friuli's most historic estates. Giampaolo spent several harvests with Jean-Louis Chave in the northern Rhône, and that time convinced him that white wine could carry terroir with real depth. In 2020 he launched his own serious project, Dalia Maris, named for his grandmother Dalia and for Stella Maris, the north star. Via Alpina runs alongside it with a different goal: fresh, honest Friulian whites at an everyday price. He buys from small vineyards in cooler Colli Orientali sites, chosen for trustworthy growers, good vines and organic farming, and the range also includes Sauvignon Blanc and Ribolla Gialla.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFood Pairing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a white for real cooking, not just the porch. Try prosciutto di San Daniele with ripe melon, the salt and fat set off by the wine's tropical fruit and acidity. A shrimp and zucchini risotto finished with lemon zest meets the lees-driven texture. Pan-fried trout with brown butter, almonds and parsley works for the same reason. Or make frico, Friuli's crisp fried cheese and potato cake, and let the acidity cut through the richness. This is the bottle to open while you cook, and the one that ends up on the table when dinner is ready.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Giuliana","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51408057565407,"sku":null,"price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0439\/7436\/1248\/files\/P9170322.jpg?v=1789709889"},{"product_id":"murfatlar-pinot-gris-elderbeerenlese-2006","title":"Murfatlar Pinot Gris Elderbeerenlese 2006","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Land\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRomania's sunniest wine region is not in the Carpathians. Murfatlar lies in Dobrogea, in Constanța county, on the strip of land between the Danube and the Black Sea, along the Danube-Black Sea Canal. The appellation's official specification records 2,220 to 2,300 hours of sunshine a year and some of the lowest rainfall in the country. Summers are hot and dry, winters are moderated by the sea, and autumns run long and late, which is exactly what a grower needs to leave grapes hanging until they shrivel and concentrate. The soils are chalky limestone rich in calcium carbonate, with carbonate chernozems and rendzinas. Pinot Gris from Murfatlar grows in a climate built for sweet wine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Wine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a sweet Pinot Gris from a selective late harvest, the Murfatlar tradition of picking Pinot Gris after the berries have shriveled on the vine. Romanian law defines its sweetest harvest category, \"cules la înnobilarea boabelor,\" as noble-rot-affected grapes with at least 240 grams of sugar per liter at harvest. Sweet whites from the appellation are described as honeyed, round and creamy. The bottle came from a private cellar, and its storage history is unknown. At 20 years old, expect deep gold to amber, then dried apricot, honey, quince paste, candied orange peel and toasted nuts, a rich, viscous body, and a long, sweet finish lifted by whatever acidity remains. Chill it lightly, stand it upright for a day, and decant gently if you see sediment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe People\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMurfatlar is as much an institution as a winery. The Romanian state began planting vineyards here in 1907, and in 1943 it founded a research and development station for viticulture and winemaking that has tracked the vineyard ever since, including the harvest dates that have moved earlier by close to nine days per decade since the 1960s. The old state vineyard became one of Romania's largest wine estates, and its reputation was built on sweet whites from Pinot Gris, Chardonnay and Muscat Ottonel, many of them exported. That history explains why a sweet Pinot Gris from the Black Sea coast turns up in a private cellar in the first place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFood Pairing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSweet Pinot Gris carries more weight than Riesling, so it can handle richer food. Seared foie gras with caramelized apples is the classic, with the wine's sugar matching the fruit and its acidity cutting the fat. A wedge of Roquefort or Stilton with honey and walnuts works because salt and sweetness make each other taste better. Apricot tart with almond cream echoes the dried-fruit flavors. 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