Sauvignon blanc from New Zealand is usually at its best within 18 months of the harvest, while it is irresistibly fresh, aromatic and tangy. Many sauvignon blancs from the bumper 2022 vintage are already on the shelves, bursting with youthful vigour and zest.
Oz Clarke, a leading British wine writer, first encountered Marlborough sauvignon blanc when he tasted the 1983 vintage from Montana in London. “My world of wine would never be the same again. There had never before been a wine that crackled and spit its flavours at you from the glass. A wine that took the whole concept of green – and expanded it, stretched it and gloriously reinterpreted it in a riot of gooseberry and lime zest, green apples, green pepper sliced through with an ice-cold knife of steel, piles of green grass …”
Astrolabe Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2022
Intensely varietal, this wine has strong, fresh, clearly herbaceous aromas.
