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No previous wine had shocked, thrilled, entranced the world before with such brash, unexpected flavours of gooseberries, passionfruit and lime, or crunchy green asparagus spears... an entirely new, brilliantly successful wine style that the rest of the world has been attempting to copy ever since.”
Oz Clarke.
The beauty of New Zealand’s Marlborough region (its stunning natural beauty aside) is its unique ability to create Sauvignon Blanc wines unlike anywhere else in the world. Part of the reason is due to the way the grapes ripen. Where the sun hits the grapes directly, they ripen with juicy, upfront tropical passionfruit flavours. The grapes that get less sun come off the vine with delicious herbal characters. The combination of intense fruit flavours, bracing acidity, and just the right amount of palate weight and sweetness has made Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc one of the most popular varieties of the new millennium.
Vineyards to visit
Yealands |
Framingham |
Ara wines |
Seresin |
Mount Riley |
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