Brodie Estate

Cantina e Vini

We are a small family owned vineyard in Martinborough in the lower North Island of New Zealand. Martinborough was the first place to grow Pinot Noir successfully in New Zealand. It is ideal for Pinot Noir with a special climate - low rainfall, good heat in the summer but rarely above 31 degrees, long warm autumns with little rain and cool nights. Our terroir consists of silts over tight clays, wet in winter and rock hard in summer with tight gravels below. Martinborough Pinot has similar phenolics to Central Otago Pinot except Martinborough wines have one less of the fruity characteristics and two more that express forest floor, savoury and mushroom characteristics. Our vineyard was planted in 2001 with 10 acres of Pinot Noir Dijon clones – 777,667,114,115, Clone 5. 777 clone has chocolate characteristics,Clone 5 brings spices and 667 brings structure and soft tannins. We blend them together to produce our single estate wine. Our plants have been grown without irrigation This leads to plants that put their energy into the fruit and not into the vegetation. We produce small succulent berries with intense fruit flavours and spicy and savoury characteristics We wait until the grape is truly ripe, This means the brix (sugar levels) levels are between 23 and 25 brix. The aim is to produce ripe fruit with a medium alcohol level. We produce 1000 cases of high quality pinot noir each year.