Eliza & Tass have 'dialled up' the skin contact in this Lansdowne Pinot Gris to help make a mad textural feast. It's a riot of orange and pear juiciness with this skinsy grippy finish that just makes a sweet/dry contrast of delicious proportions. Fresh but savoury, juicy but tangy, this gorgeous orange wine is such a pleasure.

Though Lansdowne vineyards are home to the slowest growing vines in Adelaide Hills, it's certainly never a dull moment for the young hustling family behind it, Eliza and Tass ('Tosh')! This Young Gun duo is making some tremendously exciting small-batch minimal intervention productions that are turning heads to the Hills in the hope of tasting their hard-to-get-your-hands-on wines. The vineyard is perched at 350m above sea level in the Forreston Valley, where it experiences a Mediterranean climate with cool, wet winters and warm, dry summers that linger into long, stretched autumns. Stunning early sunsets over the vineyards and cool air pooled in the valley under the starry skies make for an ideal temperature fluctuation (diurnal swing), which ensures the grapes ripen slowly and steadily, a prerequisite for the kind of flavour complexity and elegance we see in the wines from Lansdowne. Eliza and Tosh believe in the importance of sustainability and transparency in their wine, which means they take a full-love but hands-off approach to making sure their wines sing in the same key as their unique roots.