Harvest time at Saint Clair (NZ)

It was a glorious autumn day, crisp and slightly misty as the plane landed at Marlborough Airport early in the morning, hot and sunny in the middle of the day and brilliant with golden sunlight in the evening as we left – just the early April weather the winemakers ordered for the start of harvest. As our small group of wine writers and the wine trade visited Saint Clair Family Estate’s vineyards and tasted the wines from them, chief winemaker Matt Thomson and senior winemaker Hamish Clark kept checking the vines and tasting the fast-ripening grapes, writes Charmian Smith in Otago Daily Times.