Speigelau Success For Saint Clair Family Estate

Saint Clair Family Estate celebrates trophy success at the inaugural Spiegelau International Wine Competition 2011. The ultimate award – Champion Winery of the Show - was awarded to Saint Clair Family Estate (shared jointly with Charles Wiffen and Church Road). In addition, Saint Clair Family Estate also won the Champion Sauvignon Blanc trophy, which was awarded for the Saint Clair Pioneer Block 3 43 Degrees Sauvignon Blanc 2010.

Trophy winners were announced at the awards dinner in Auckland on Friday night. This event followed three intense days of judging in June at the Marlborough Convention Centre, where over 1100 entries were evaluated.

“We have been able to achieve these results through our incredibly professional and dedicated team,” says Neal Ibbotson, Managing Director of Saint Clair Family Estate.

“We feel very proud that our wines consistently achieve top class status from international wine shows such as this. Our open-minded approach to quality viticulture and winemaking is imperative to achieving such a high quality standard.”

This recent success clearly recognises the ability of Saint Clair’s winemaking team, led by Matt Thomson and Hamish Clark, to produce quality wines of world-class excellence – a remarkable achievement for the family-owned Marlborough winery.