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Welcome to Martinus Estate
Description
Martinus Estate was established in 1998. Producing only the one varietal “Pinot Noir”, first released in November 2002. Martinus Estate is planted in a wide variety of Pinot Noir clones including the new Dijon clones, on varying rootstocks and on differing trellising systems, where the fruiting wire ranges from 900mm to a knee scraping 400mm. Together with the inherent low cropping of the Martinborough Terrace, mainly through the prevailing winds and selective fruit thinning, we believe that this will offer considerable complexity to the wine that we intend to produce .Our philosophy is quite simple, “Minimalistic approach enabling the terroir held within the grape to express itself.” Our 6-acre vineyard will produce enough fruit for around 600 cases as new plantings come on stream.
The grapes are hand harvested each year. Fermentations are in small stainless steel tanks with the wine sitting on it’s skins for around 21 days. Thereafter maturing for 10 months in French oak with approximately 25% being new.
Martinus Estate of Martinborough is situated in the picturesque, southern Wairarapa, which lies in the South Eastern corner of the north island, New-Zealand.
