St. Clair Winery is an American wine brand from
Deming, New Mexico
Deming (, ''DEM-ing'') is a city in Luna County, New Mexico, Luna County, New Mexico, United States, west of Las Cruces, New Mexico, Las Cruces and north of the Mexico–United States border, Mexican border. The population was 14,855 as of the ...
, founded in 1984. As of January 2020, St. Clair Winery's Mimbres Red is
New Mexico's #1 selling wine and is made in the
Mimbres Valley
The Mimbres Valley AVA is an American Viticultural Area located in southwestern New Mexico near the towns of Deming and Silver City. The AVA includes the Mimbres Watershed of the Mimbres River, and most vineyards are planted at elevations ...
in
Luna County
Luna County is a List of counties in New Mexico, county located in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census, the population was 25,095. Its county seat is Deming, New Mexico, Deming. This county abuts the M ...
by the Lescombes family (Lescombes Family Vineyards). The vineyard site used to produce the wine is located 50 miles west of Deming, New Mexico, just east of Lordsburg, New Mexico. It is the largest yielding vineyard in New Mexico and covers 220 acres. The company is owned and operated by Hervé Lescombes and family (sons Florent Lescombes and Emmanuel Lescombes), who have been in the wine industry for six generations, and have made wine across three continents (
Algeria, Africa;
Burgundy
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, France, Europe;
New Mexico, USA, North America)
St. Clair is also known for its
chile-infused wine
Hatch Chile Wines made with
Hatch pepper
New Mexico chile or New Mexican chile (Scientific name: ''Capsicum annuum'' 'New Mexico Group'; es, chile de Nuevo México, ) is a cultivar group of the chile pepper from the US state of New Mexico, first grown by Pueblo and Hispano communities ...
s, for which it was awarded a US Federal grant for value-added agricultural products in 2014.
The Lescombes family's company-owned locations were re-branded under the "D.H. Lescombes" name in Spring of 2019. Besides the D.H. Lescombes Winery & Tasting Room in
Deming, there are D.H. Lescombes Winery & Bistro locations in
Albuquerque, and
Las Cruces,
New Mexico.
A location in Santa Fe, Hervé Wine Bar, was opened in 2018.
D.H. Lescombes was named after the fifth generation of the winemaking legacy, Danielle & Hervé Lescombes. A Limited Release selection of D.H. Lescombes wines are made with the finest red varietals grown in their own
New Mexico vineyard. Limited Release wines are crafted in small, carefully controlled batches and committed to a two-year French oak maturation process.
St. Clair Winery's Mimbres Red became the #1 selling wine in the state of New Mexico for the first time in early 2019. It had been ranked as the best-selling red wine for many years.
Today, the St. Clair Winery brand is still Lescombes family-owned and made since 1991. It is sold at various retailers in New Mexico. The wines are distributed by National Distributing Company within the state of
New Mexico.
See also
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List of wineries in New Mexico
This is a list of wineries in New Mexico. Within American wine, New Mexico has a long history of wine production, especially along the Rio Grande, from its capital Santa Fe, New Mexico, Santa Fe, the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Albuquerque w ...
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New Mexico wine
New Mexico has a long history of wine production, within American wine, especially along the Rio Grande, from its capital Santa Fe, the city of Albuquerque with its surrounding metropolitan area, and in valleys like the Mesilla and the Mimbres ...
References
Further reading
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External links
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1984 establishments in New Mexico
Tourist attractions in Luna County, New Mexico
Wineries in New Mexico
Food and drink companies established in 1984
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