New Zealand

2021 Allan Scott - Sauvignon Blanc Marlborough

Named Wine Spectator's #1 Wine Value of 2021

2021 Alpine Rift - Sauvignon Blanc Marlborough

It might be the power of suggestion of the wine’s name, but Alpine Rift's 2021 Sauvignon Blanc offers glacial purity. Don’t expect a sweaty, tropical style; this is much more herbal and fresh-faced. There’s an attractive and distinctive fennel bite among ...

2019 Clos Henri - Pinot Noir Marlborough Petit Clos

This quality-focused biodynamic producer's Petit Clos range is always great value. This vintage, an excellent one in Marlborough, gives particular bang for buck. The wine is the color of freshly squeezed cherry juice, and the vibrant nose offers oodles of...

2019 Clos Henri - Sauvignon Blanc Marlborough Clos Henri

This is so polished and concentrated. It has superbly fresh lime, passion fruit and guava, as well as some fresh herbs and wet stones. The palate has attractively detailed and focused flavors with a zesty, fresh line of acidity and plenty of intense, live...

2021 Cloudy Bay - Sauvignon Blanc Marlborough

2021 Craggy Range - Sauvignon Blanc Martinborough Te Muna Road Vineyard

The pungent, plush 2021 Sauvignon Blanc Te Muna Road Vineyard (Martinborough) offers up layers of both grassy and elderflower flavors in combination with a tropical fruit salad. It's sweetly fruited and ripe, presenting a rich mouthful of Sauvignon-ness. ...

2018 Dashwood - Pinot Noir Marlborough

There's a bit of reductive funk to start off on this wine but there's also plenty of ripe red-berry fruit, spice and meaty undertones. A good amount of cola-like wood influence is present too, which carries through to the palate and feels a touch bitter. ...

2021 Dog Point - Sauvignon Blanc Marlborough

Unlike most Marlborough Sauvignons, the 2021 Dog Point Sauvignon Blanc is cropped low and hand-harvested in a bid to increase concentration and restraint, respectively. This is a Scrappy Doo of a wine with its youthful "lemme at 'em" vivacity. It has mass...

2019 Dog Point - Chardonnay Marlborough

The 2019 Dog Point is one hell of a mouthful of a Chardonnay with its full-bodied, concentrated, vanilla-infused core, offering density and richness of white stone fruit and oak-derived grilled nut and bacon flavors. It would be difficult to call this win...

2021 Frenzy Sauvignon Blanc New Zealand

Intensely aromatic and lively, with flavors of passion fruit and guava underpinned with aromas of fresh herbs and blackcurrant, this is a great wine to enjoy as an aperitif, or match with seafood. The palate is vibrant with zingy fruit that is balanced wi...

2021 Greywacke - Sauvignon Blanc Marlborough

The 2021 Sauvignon from Greywacke is classic yet classy. It is richly aromatic yet not flamboyant, with good purity of fruit: expect flavors of black currant and nectarine alongside subtle tropical fruit and citrus. Due to a naturally low-yielding season,...

2017 Greywacke - Pinot Noir Marlborough

Kevin Judd's 2017 Pinot Noir shows a hint of green bean on the nose, perhaps a hint of stemminess, alongside ripe red and black cherries. It's medium-bodied and softly dusty in texture, with those soft tannins lingering on the finish.