The Marco Lubiana Pinot Noir is a medium-bodied, complex, and highly expressive cool-climate red wine from the Derwent Valley, Tasmania, produced by second-generation winemaker Marco Lubiana to showcase a savoury, structural, and deeply authentic expression of his family's certified biodynamic estate vines.
- Aromas: The nose is fragrant and intricately layered, bursting with red cherry, wild raspberry, and dark currant, wrapped in exotic spices, violet florals, dried orange peel, and an underlying hint of earth and crushed stone.
- Palate: The palate is savoury and intense, delivering crunchy cranberries and dark cherry fruit, beautifully balanced by a fine, porcelain-like acidity and firmly framed, chalky tannins that give it excellent tension and a mineral finish.
- Style: This is a serious, modern Tasmanian Pinot Noir that trades simple fruit sweetness for an Old World savouriness, balancing light-footed energy with remarkable structural depth and a long, detailed tail.
- Winemaking: Sourced entirely from estate blocks, the wine incorporates a high proportion of whole-bunch fermentation and is wild-fermented with minimal sulphur, matured for 12 months in French oak barrels, and bottled unfiltered on site.
- Cellaring: Though it displays a wonderful core of primary fruit vibrancy on release, its taut acid profile and firm structural spine mean it will cellar beautifully and evolve over 5 to 10 years.
- Food Pairing: An outstanding partner for delicate or savoury dishes, pairing perfectly with roasted duck breast, pan-seared quail, wild mushroom risotto, or a charcuterie board featuring cured meats and pâté.
This is a seriously smart, deeply thoughtful Pinot Noir that beautifully balances freshness with real structural focus. It gives you plenty of bright, crunching berries to start, but it stays totally composed and complex because of those savoury herbs and fine, chalky tannins. It is a fantastic bottle to open for a special dinner or to share on a quiet evening when you want a top-tier cool-climate red that rewards you with every sip.
Marco Lubiana
Marco Lubiana represents the next generation of this celebrated Tasmanian wine family, crafting small-batch wines that focus on purity and site expression. Working from the family’s biodynamic vineyard in Granton, his approach is grounded in the belief that great wine is made in the vineyard.
With minimal intervention and a strong respect for the land, Marco’s wines highlight the nuance and energy of Tasmania’s cool climate.
His Chardonnay and Pinot Noir are particularly distinctive—refined, expressive, and a true reflection of both vineyard and craft.
