A true medium style Riesling. Go big or go home.
Saint Clair Pioneer Block 9 Big John Riesling
- Trophy Champion Riesling & Gold medal (The National Wine Awards of Aotearoa New Zealand 2025)
- "Zesty, bright and focussed...Divine" (The National Wine Awards of Aotearoa New Zealand 2025)
- Named after the vineyard owner John Walsh - a towering figure at 6"10 aka Big John!
- A true medium style Riesling and weighing in at just 10.5% - a great anytime option!
- Pair with spicy Asian cuisine or sweet and sour pork
The National Wine Awards of Aotearoa NZ – Trophy
The National Wine Awards of Aotearoa NZ – Gold
Michael Cooper 4.5 Stars
NZIWS Silver
28 in stock
Made by Saint Clair in Marlborough and part of their iconic Pioneer Block series – a range of small parcel wines from specific vineyard sites dotted across Marlborough. This is the Pioneer Block 9 Big John Riesling Block named after vineyard owner John Walsh who stands at 6″10!
This is a true medium style Riesling (36 grams of residual sugar for you wine nerds out there!) and it’s just quite simply a damn delicious glass of white that is screaming to be pair with spicy Asian cuisine or a sweet and sour pork dish!
Scoring 4 1/2 Stars by Michael Cooper in the NZ Listener, Coops said “Grown in the lower Brancott Valley, this is a distinctly medium style. Scented, light-bodied and vigorous, it has good intensity of youthful, lemony, appley flavours, considerable sweetness balanced by mouthwatering acidity, and obvious potential for cellaring.”
You can drink it now until 2032.
- 10.5%
- 750ml
- Screwcap
