Blenheim, Marlborough

Blessed with long, dry summers, cool nights and an alluvial soil that took millions of years to make, Marlborough is New Zealand's (some would say the world's) sauvignon blanc paradise.

"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 writing about Marlborough sauvignon blanc.