Garagiste Merricks Pinot Gris 2026

In Barney Flanders’s hands, Pinot Gris can be a wonderful thing. Time after time, you can expect a mouthwatering pure Gris with texture, structure and balance, and the 2026, from an outstanding vintage, is right in the zone. The fruit is sourced from 29-year-old, northeast-facing vines rooted in the signature grey loam and red ferrosol soils of Merricks. After sorting in the vineyard and winery, the fruit is whole-bunch pressed direct to old puncheons with full solids, where it wild-ferments without temperature control and rests on gross lees for eight months.