Saint Clair Origin Pinot Noir 2021

Colour: Dark garnet. Aroma: Perfumed black fruits with savoury oak notes. Palate: A rich and fruit forward Pinot Noir with flavours of black cherry and strawberry with a hint of spice. Elegant with a lovely, refined structure leading to a long toasty finish. Ageing Potential: Drinking beautifully from release date, this wine can be enjoyed young or with careful cellaring will mature into a more complex wine that can be enjoyed for the next three years.

Selected from Vineyards within the Marlborough region.

At the winery each batch (or vineyard) was held cold for five days prior to fermentation to help with colour and flavour extraction. The juice was then inoculated with yeast for the primary alcoholic fermentation and hand plunged up to eight times daily during the height of fermentation. When dry each batch was pressed to tank, settled and then racked off gross lees to either stainless steel tanks or a mixture of new and older seasoned French oak. The wine underwent 100 per cent malolactic fermentation before being blended, fined, lightly filtered and gently prepared for bottling.