New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc: panel tasting results

Established in 1985, Cloudy Bay has become one of the world’s most recognised New Zealand wine brands. Te Koko is made from fruit from four...

Family-owned winery Craggy Range was founded in 1998 in Hawke’s Bay, and the family has pursued a single-vineyard approach to winemaking. For this wine, grapes...

In recent years the team at Pallister Estate have been working hard to convert to organic farming practices across their seven vineyards. For this wine,...

Founded in Marlborough in 1995, Spring Creek Estate originally championed a blend of Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc, but as consumer preferences changed, so did the...

A collaboration between British Master of Wine Liam Steevenson and celebrated Marlborough winemaker Ben Glover, Fincher & Co highlights the diversity of single-vineyard sites. Fruit...

Seifried was established in Nelson in 1973 by Austrian-born Hermann Seifried (right) and his New Zealand wife Agnes, and their Aotea series represents specially selected,...

Plentiful lemon balm, zest, bright juicy pineapple, cape gooseberries and kaffir nuances. Mid palate is so clean and focused, delicate acid line and long enticing...

Pristine fruit characters that flow seamlessly across the palate. Fresh, citrus-green-rose petal aromatic profile. There's a tension and poise here that champions Sauvignon.

Freshly cut grass dances between ripe lemons, limes and passionfruit explosions. Racey on the mid palate with some creamy texture. Zippy and sassy with oodles...

Refined excellence. Textured, layered and depth of flavour is immense the balance between citrus freshness and cool restrained tropical fruit is perfect, layers of complexity,

Beautiful fruit purity running seamlessly from nose right through to abundantly long length. Pink grapefruit and gentle layers of restrained mango; creamy and focused on...

Freshness! Passionfruit, kaffir, and a custard apple feel. Focussed grapefruit, linear and crisp acidity lines, full of promise and delivers across the palate with integrity....

Restrained elegance that gentle simmers to the top. The integration of oak is harmonious. Atypical profile with a cinnamon-cardamom-spiced profile. Length is clean and full,...

Expressive citrus and fruit salad. Very clean, pure and refined. Impressive example of a lighter ABV wine.

Crushed fresh peas sit playfully with citrus, hints of nettles and a gunpowder matchstick uplift. Well-balanced. Impressive sense of presence particularly in this vintage.

Abundantly green and vivacious! Green apples, taut acid and fine delicate vegetals. Layered rather well on the texture and restraint. A lean but perfect example.

Salted lemons, briny character, spice, silky, uplifting. Bright clean acidity dancing on the mid palate, then hints of passion fruit, wet grass and minerality. Approachable...

Limey, fresh aromatics, bright, upbeat, tingly. There's a sense of refinement here, almost Sancerre in style, saline edge but elegant and poised.

Kaffir lime, hints of guava and elderflower merge seamlessly onto the palate. Juicy, aromatic and restrained passion fruit softened with a creamy delicate balance.

Sweet perfume dominates the nose. Ripe and fresh stone fruits bring this wine alive. Concentrated and fresh, mouth-cleansing texture, long and steely, impressive length.

Clean, fresh, lychee, passion fruit, guava, thai lime, kaffir. Struck match and flinty nuances provide further complexity. Quite long on the finish.

Expressive, umami characters, zesty. A lovely persistence to the palate of this wine, with oak integration providing an incredible backdrop to host delicate tripocials and...

Lovely vegetal aromas including sweet peas, asparagus and peppers. Buttercups, floral and stunning perfume on front palate, textured and spiced, apricots and nectarines, with a...

Crisp, clean enticing nose and palate. Alphonso mango with sweet grilled pineapple. Wonderful Depth and complexity of fruits supported by lively acid and spiced finish.

Ripe-tart fruit profile passion fruit and sauce anglaise, bright and focused with guava. Struck match is prevalent from nose to palate. Sense of harmony, fullness...

Bright lemon pith, fresh lime and fine herbs. Delicate vegetal undertones creep across the palate with opulent fruits. Light on its feet, and well-balanced.

Citrus-pear, vanilla and cardamom oak. This is a purity of fruit that excels next to texture that is alluring. .Silky texture helps give the impression...

Aromatic with busts of lime, florals,sweet crushed fresh peas. passionfruit, guava and elderflower. .A minerality here that creates structure and poise to let the fruit...

This wine is definitely an extrovert! Wonderfully pungent nose of green bell peppers, tomato leaf and saline. Spices and tiny clusters of dancing fruit on...

Expressive nuances of ripe mangoes and pineapple prevalent here. An intuitive use of oak complements the ripeness of fruits, brooding well with complexity depth and...

Pure and damn fine! Lime leaf, citrus, guava, tropical fruit. So crisp and clean it's pristine. Spiced acidity, fresh on second taste, evolves more...

Restrained but bursting with passionfruit from start to finish. Lemon and lime marmalade with gentle spices, some baked apples, cordial and lime curd. Finishes with...

Fruits are slowly turning tertiary. Full of flavour from buttercups to stone fruit to racey fruit. Has character, depth and freshness.

Struck match and flint dominate the nose. Classic asparagus meets citrus and rose. Concentrated fruit aromas playfully rest against saline but it is all synchronised...

Light, appealing lemon-lime-pear cordial characters. cut grass on a summer day. The synergy of savoury and sweet makes this an exemplary example.

Welcome aromas of honeyed bananas and soft citrus fruits. Complexity enhanced by silky texture and weight. Well-balanced with a decent finish.

Clean, fresh, aromatics; tropical and citrus with some herbs. The frisky acid line provides attitude and fun.

Perfectly ripe stone fruit unveiled across the mid and back palate, richly textured and full flavoured this is evolving. Abundant patches and complexity of fruit...

Savoury in style, vegetal aromas are abundant with asparagus, bell peppers galore on the nose. There is a lovely bite to it leaving a crisp,...

Classic crowd pleaser, tropical with clean focused fruit, paw paw, guava and alphonso mango. The zippy refreshing acid directs the flavours to a pure and...

Restrained, elegant and refined with layers of controlled flavours of ripe banana peel and pineapple leaves all underpinned by classic Sauvignon characters of elderflower and...

Fresh forward and approachable this wine has hints of red apples and passionfruit as well as a little herbaceous coriander touch. Ripe-fruited, expressive, zingy acids.

Iconically Sauvignon, abundance of tropical interlaced with herbaceous touch. Rich in flavour and texture. Well balanced with some silky length.

Concentrated lime, citrus and fine herbes. focussed precision, restrained fruit, layered and textured. Fresh clean acidity leaving a tingling palate.

Kaffir lime focussed, with, stoney flinty nuances across the mid palate. Concentrated but bright, fresh and limey with delicate quince and crabapple at the end.

Bright focused and polished,williams pear and orchard fruit. Structurally balanced between acid and fruit concentration. Flint on the finish.