Lark Hill Winery Pinot Noir 2017 domaine-bernard-defaix making it ideal for the

making it ideal for the Clone 15 plantings and expressed in the typically bright fruit and marked thread of minerality that Petrie Chardonnay is renowned for

Exogyra virgula is the name of the comma-shaped limestone fossils of ancient shellfish that are so abundant in the soils of this part of the world

The creek flows from the Richmond Ranges of Marlborough into the Wairau River and this water in turn feeds the fertile land that produces Marlborough's famous grapes

mulberry and blueberry

sited on a patch of dark granite (within a limestone-rich area)

Lark Hill Winery Pinot Noir 2017 domaine-bernard-defaix making it ideal for theOur search for a cool site in 1978 took us to the top of the escarpment above Lake George. Here, at 860m, the Pinot Noir ripens slowly in the Autumn sun, building aromas and flavours of dark cherry, game and woodland. We planted MV6, traceable to the Busby introductions of 1933, and more recently the Dijon 115 Clone. We use traditional and modern techniques, whole bunches and pigeage. The Pinot Noir is fermented with the wild yeasts that abound in our