Saint Clair James Sinclair Marlborough Pinot Noir 2025

Description

Almond, Oak, Raspberry

"Sweetly ripe and fragrant, the bouquet shows dark plum, sweet cherry, clove, and floral aromas. It's juicy and beautifully rounded in the mouth, offering bright fruit flavours with silky tannins, finishing smooth and comforting" Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, Feb 2026

Dark Garnet. Pronounced aromas of dark berry fruits with notes of dried herbs and a touch of oak. A full-bodied style with concentrated flavours of blackberry and cherry combined with light savoury notes. The palate is silky smooth with delicate toasty oak on the lengthy finish.

Carefully selected fruit from vineyards within the Southern Valleys sub-region of Marlborough were chosen for this James Sinclair Pinot Noir. This region is renowned for low cropping vineyards on clay based soils. These soils, combined with a long ripening season provide ideal conditions for the development of concentrated flavours and ripe tannins.

Once the fruit was received at the winery each vineyard batch was held cold for five days prior to fermentation to help with maximum aroma and flavour extraction. Primary alcoholic fermentation was carried out through the use of cultured yeasts, and during the height of fermentation the fermenting must was hand plunged up to eight times daily. Once dry, each batch was pressed to tank, settled and then racked off lees to a mixture of stainless steel tanks and seasoned French oak. The wine underwent 100 per cent malolactic fermentation during aging before being blended, fined, lightly filtered and gently prepared for bottling.

Food Pairing: Well matched with mustard and herb rack of lamb with fresh seasonal vegetables.