Mouth-watering Pinot Gris with lovely notes of crunchy pear, yellow nectarine, white peach, lemon and lime. There’s hints of spice and ginger, with fresh lemon peel and some savoury, saline characteristics.
A blend of three vineyards in the sub-regions of Shoreham and Red Hill. A combination of machine and hand-picked fruit. Oxidised juice inoculated in tank and then sent to old puncheons and barriques with full solids. Wine underwent MLF in oak and was transferred to tank with solids in June for stabilisation. Cross-flowed and then bottled in August with only one small addition of SO2 prior to bottle. – Will Byron, Onannon
Mornington does a good line in Pinot Gris, and Will Byron is a very good winemaker. And kind of handsome too, though that doesn’t influence my rating. Well, maybe a little.
This is very good. It’s classic Gris, but shows some restraint. I’m thinking nashi pear and spice, a musky and floral/vanilla perfume. It’s fresh, but delivers flavour, and the gently chalky texture is most excellent, offering a crisp yet slippery finish of excellent length, and my word, this is a textbook example of how to knock out a Pinot Gris that’s balanced and lovely to drink. 94 points. Gary Walsh, The Winefront Sep 2024
Overlooking Port Phillip Bay, our home base is a five acre vineyard in Red Hill on the Mornington Peninsula. Planted primarily to the MV6 and 777 clone of Pinot Noir we have been making wine from this vineyard since 2009.
In 2014 we took over full management of this special place. In addition we have we building relationships with various growers on the Mornington Peninsula to source parcels of outstanding fruit.
Onannon is three people Will Byron, Sam Middleton and Kaspar Hermann. We make wines that speak a little of ourselves and a lot of the place. We each contributed the last letters of our surnames to make Onannon.
CellarHand is a fine-wine importer and wholesale distributor, with a portfolio featuring some of the most sought-after estates of Germany, Austria, France and Italy, as well some of the greatest producers from Australia and New Zealand. Our ethos has always been to build a portfolio as you’d construct the perfect wine list. We work with small, family producers who express the best of their regions. The wines we sell are the wines we enjoy, and the people who make them are like family to us. They are wines that taste of where they come from, and though they’re steeped in history and stamped with the signature of their terroir, they’re more than ever relevant – and desirable – to the Australian diner of today.
