Maryhill’s 2008 Pinot Gris is medium straw-colored with a green tint. Its attractive perfume reveals notes of spring flowers, minerals, and tangerine zest. Crisp, dry, and refreshing on the palate, this lengthy effort will supply pleasure for another 2-3 years. Based on this superb and well-priced portfolio of wines, Maryhill Winery merits serious attention.Tel. (877) 627-9445; www.maryhillwinery.com

Pinot Gris can often show a little bit of a tawny blush, as it’s a fairly dark-skinned white grape, but this is downright coppery, like a French Rose. It’s closer to an Oregon style than to other Washington Pinot Gris, with fleshy pear-flavored fruit and light hints of cinnamon and baking spices. Gets off to a good start, then falls away quite rapidly into a quick, generic finish.——P.G.(12/31/2008)—— 86

Sappy with flavors of ripe Macintosh apples, this snappy, juicy wine brings a lively lushness to this versatile grape. The mix of fruit and acid is just right, and it keeps its balance all through the finish. Almost bone dry.——P.G.(12/1/2007)—— 88

The fruit is from Oregon, and lacks the crisp authority of the Washington style. Ripe, loose-knit and tasting of sweet cracker in the finish, it closes out with a bit of candy-sweet sugar. ——P.G.(10/1/2004)—— 85