Rod Easthope, winemaker at Craggy Range in New Zealand with quite a bit of South African winemaking experience under his belt, brought a few intriguing bottles over from Hawke’s Bay on his...

From £12.99, US$18, NZ$22, AU$22 Find this wine 'I am afraid that much of the UK wine trade appears to have written off the whole of New Zealand's 2008 Sauvignon Blanc...

Kevin Judd, for more than 20 years the winemaker at Cloudy Bay, one of the most successful producers and marketers of New Zealand Sauvignon ever , has just released his first wine under his own...

From £5.99/£7.99 Find Casa Marin, Cipreses Sauvignon Blanc 2008 I went to the annual Chilean tasting in London a couple of weeks ago and was struck forcefully by...

This session on day 3 of the Landmark Tutorial week was led by Iain Riggs of Brokenwood, who highlighted the worldwide increase in Sauvignon Blanc plantings compared with those of Semillon. He...

From £3.79, $14.99 and €12.52 Find the Fournier In hot, humid weather, what could be more agreeable than a really sleek, racy, cool, refreshing Sauvignon Blanc with lots of...

After 30 years of captivating consumers with distinctive flavours ranging from gooseberry to nettles via passionfruit, cat’s pee, asparagus, citrus and capsicum, New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc...

Montana this year celebrates its 30th vintage of Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc. Jeff Clarke, their chief winemaker, talks about the generous 2009 vintage and his response to Tesco's current...

Murray Paterson of the viticultural consultancy Vinifera Services sends the following report on the 2009 grape harvest in Marlborough, where he estimates as much as 40,000 tonnes of New Zealand...

If Menetou Salon, Quincy and Reuilly are the poor relations of Sancerre and Pouilly Fumé, spare a thought for the Loire vignerons producing Sauvignon Blanc outside these famous Central Vineyard...

In Marlborough, New Zealand, they are celebrating 30 years of producing Sauvignon Blanc at the country's leading wine producer Montana (called Brancott Estate in the US) but in a way the timing...

While Tamlyn Currin mined the recent London Australia Day tasting for bargains , I continued my Sauvignon Blanc mission, motivated partly by the news that Sauvignon Blanc now outsells Chardonnay...

With any luck the 2009 vintage of the world’s most popular Sauvignon Blanc, to be picked in the next few weeks, should be the best ever. Earlier this month I revisited Marlborough, the New...

Here's something brisk for the new year - an in-depth look at last year's crop of NZ Sauvignons. Tasting a large number of varietal wines from the same country and the same vintage is always...

A tasting in London of a selection of Saint Clair’s Pioneer Block Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Noir with winemaker Matt Thomson (International Wine Challenge white winemaker of the year 2008,...