We’re in Trentino here with one of the gazillion releases from the Mezzacorona winery. This is Pinot Grigio with flavour – pear juice, cut pears and a little honeysuckle plus nutty almond hints. A broad-brushed and quite ripe style, too – not delicate, more blocky. It has some persistence, though – a blunt object, but the pear flavours really hang around. Solid drinking.

THE VERDICT

• Best drinking: now
• Score (out of 20): 17
• Score (out of 100): 90
• Alcohol %: 12.5
• RRP (in $AUD): 32
• Winery website: https://www.singlevineyards.com/portfolio/castel-firmian/
• Would I buy it?: a glass