Craggy Range Martinborough Pinot Noir

It’s here! The New Zealand Pinot that just took the world by storm, made global headlines and is now recognised as one of the “50 Best Wines in the World” from the world’s largest and most influential wine competitions – the 2025 Decanter World Wine Awards in London.

But here’s your heads up – with stock extremely limited and global demand through the roof it’s been tightly allocated and we’ve secured a small stash that simply is not enough to meet demand. Every Pinot lover around the world will be wanting to lay their mits on this wine…so don’t think twice or you’ll miss it!

This won Best In Show with a 97/100 rating which is an absolutely incredible achievement! Winning Best In Show at the DWWA is no easy road that’s for sure. After joining over 18,000 other wines they are then awarded Gold, Silver or Bronze –  the rest are shown the door! Then the best of the best go toe-to-toe to determine the Platinum award winners. THEN, the Platinum award winners go to head-to-head to discover the overall Best In Show winners, the top 50 wines from the entire competition.

Or let’s put it another way – top 50 from over 18,000 is just 0.002% of all wines entered got a Best In Show Award!

The judges at the DWWA in London had this to say. “Of the six Pinot Noirs from New Zealand to feature in our Top 50 selections since 2018, this is the third to come from Wairarapa’s Martinborough (the other three, unsurprisingly, have been Central Otago wines). This is an uncompromisingly dark wine that plays to New Zealand’s strengths in terms of purity and vivacity of fruit: raspberry, cherry and plum come streaming from the glass, and the fine meshing of fruit and oak in this wine adds to its lustre and appeal. In the mouth, the wine is both long and broad but not in any way clumsy, and the fruit flavours (raspberry to the fore again) are hypnotic. Svelte tannins are barely palpable, so there’s no textural barrier to entry.”

Using fruit from some of Craggy’s Martinborough vineyards this ’24 vintage is not one to be missed! The winemaking team at Craggy describe it as “Flavours of strawberries and red cherries fill the mouth and finish with dusty cocoa powder-like tannin. Immediately drinkable, enjoy this wine in its youth.”