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Pinot Noir Île du Sud Marlborough vin rouge tranquille

Origin

Burgundy

Growing regions

France, Germany, United States, South Africa, New Zealand, Argentina, Australia, Chile

Also known as

Spätburgunder

Marlborough is above all the empire of Sauvignon Blanc, but Pinot Noir reveals an unexpectedly seductive face here. In the Southern Valleys — Brancott, Omaka, Waihopai — and on the stony terraces of the Awatere, far from the fertile soils of the Wairau floor, it finds more austere conditions: clay and calcareous …