2025 Saint Clair Origin Pinot Noir, Marlborough

The Origin wines from Saint Clair are regional blends of a given variety that drink well on release and offer good value-for-money.

The 2025 Pinot Noir opens with perfumed red berry aromas and light notes of toasty savouriness from oak. Medium-bodied, the palate is all about generous red and black fruit with hint of spice and delicate, fine tannins.

A style that drinks best while fresh and fruity, this would pair well with Szechuan dryfired green beans and pork mince, or tacos with slow-cooked beef.

More about this wine

The fruit for the 2025 Origin Pinot Noir was sourced from estate vineyards in Marlborough’s Southern and Awatere Valleys, with vineyards harvested as the fruit matured. At the winery each parcel was held cold for five days prior to fermentation to enhance colour and flavours. The grapes were then inoculated with selected yeasts for and the ferments hand plunged several times a day. The dry wine was pressed off the skins, settled and racked off lees, with a third aged in seasoned French oak barriques. All parcels underwent malolactic fermentation before being assessed, blended and lightly filtered in preparation for bottling.

About this producer

Saint Clair Family Estate was established in 1994 by Neal and Judy Ibbotson, with their children Sarina, Tony and Julie today involved in all aspects of the operations. The family farms a substantial 160 of vineyards, and sources fruit through an extensive network of contract growers. Marlborough and its subregions have been the focus from the beginning, while smaller amount of premium red wines is made from fruit grown in the Gimblett Gravels area of Hawke’s Bay. Stewart Maclenann and Kyle Thompson are the current leaders of the winery team that each vintage creates an impressively broad line-up of wines.