GIESEN Pinot Grigio
AB +109534
Bottle: 12x750ml
Varietal: Pinot Grigio
Region: New Zealand
Alcohol: <0.5%
27 calories per 5oz serving
Gold + Trophy
International Wine & Spirits Competition 2023
Marlborough, New Zealand
Tasting Notes
This dealcoholized Pinot Grigio features delicate floral notes with white flowers, lychee, and red apple on the nose. The palate offers traditional Pinot Grigio characters of apple and pear with just a touch of muscat grape. Light, delicious, and balanced between acidity and sweetness.
How it’s Made
We select fruit from vineyards in Marlborough, Waipara and Hawke’s Bay to ensure beautiful, structural Pinot Grigio with delicate floral aromatics and stonefruit flavours. Using innovative spinning cone technology popular in perfume-making, we separate the wine into three parts: alcohol, aroma, and body. We leave the alcohol behind, recombine the aroma and body, and add just a touch of premium grape juice to balance the final blend.
This advanced form of distillation allows us to handle the wine gently, maintaining the integrity of our distinctive flavor palate and texture throughout the process.
The finished product is a refreshing, off-dry style of non-alcoholic wine with low calories, containing no more than 0.5% alc/vol. At just 27 calories per 5oz serve, a glass of Giesen 0% - New Zealand Pinot Grigio has 70% less calories than a traditional 12.5% alc/vol Pinot Grigio and over 50% less sugar than many fruit juices.
About the Producer
Giesen is a family-owned, family operated winery that was founded by three brothers—Theo, Alex, and Marcel. The three sons of a stonemason were planning to follow the family enterprise in Germany. However, on a whim (and because it reminded them of home) in 1981, while they were travelling the world, Theo and Alex Giesen purchased land and planted a vineyard just outside Christchurch. At the time it was the world’s southern-most vineyard.
Younger brother Marcel took himself to winemaking school and four years later joined Theo and Alex to start making wine from their vineyard.
From that first vintage in 1984, Giesen made Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc and it was an instant hit. At the time Marlborough was little known. However, drawing on their German heritage the three brothers recognised that cool-climate winegrowing created wines with flavour. Today they’re the proprietors of 13 vineyards across the Wairau Valley subregion of Marlborough.