“This is a global benchmark for Sauvignon Blanc” – The Wine Companion, 97 points

“Superb” - Matthew Jukes, 18.5/20 points

“An absolute stand-out wine from the 2024 vintage” - The Real Review

“Stunning, complex and distinctive” - Wine Spectator

The thing we love about Dog Point’s newly-released Sauvignon Blanc is that it’s flintier than Fred Flinstone’s friend Flinty McFlintface. It is Marlborough at its most seamless and finessed, a Sauvignon Blanc for people who don’t like Sauvignon Blanc? It’s wonderfully pared down, and stripped right back to a minimalist interpretation of the grape, devoid of the pungent cat’s pee aromas that dog (pardon the pun) so many of New Zealand’s Sauvignons. It’s glacially pure, with cool-as-a-cucumber fruit in a delicately balanced frame of mouthwatering acidity and tender sweetness. The colour is water white and the flavours are like a mountain stream infused with frosty apples, white peach, grapefruit, shiso leaf and gun flint, pitching it halfway between Marlborough and Sancerre (that would actually be Calcutta, so please don’t take that literally). It's a seriously stylish Sauvignon Blanc that slowly impresses itself upon you with its elegance, complexity and stony, flinty character. Very gastronomic. Drink it with sashimi, fig and goat's cheese salad, tuna carpaccio, pollo milanese (an unlikely, but excellent combo!), parma ham and melon or fresh seafood. Certified organic. 12.5% alc. Drink now-2032.

Press reviews:

The Wine Companion: “A washing line of fresh linen, spring daisies and gently waving buffalo grass. There is lemon posset, limestone, chalk and grapefruit skin. Citrus and white stone fruit flavours centre deeply in the mid-palate, with a tantalising amount of fresh fruit sweetness and cascading and yet tapered acidity. This is just a top-notch white wine, full stop. Detailed, layered and moreish in every sense of the word. Close your eyes and take in the pretty aromas, taste the sandy dry mineral tones, consider the palate length and quality and you know you can only be drinking Dog Point from their esteemed Wairau sites in Marlborough. The savoury cream tones add further complexity and finesse. This is a global benchmark for Sauvignon Blanc.” 97 points

Matthew Jukes: "Back in March in my MoneyWeek column, I wrote up the 2023 vintage of this wine, which is a superb creation in its own right, and the 2024 vintage was, in turn, the pick of this dozen. It looked superb straight out of the bottle, with a little more weight and presence than the others, and it had real flair and energy. Then, it continued to blossom over two days while the others faded. Once again, there were none of the unwanted canned fruit salad or tropical notes that I despise, and I was left thinking of some of the more textural and expressive Pouilly-Fumes that appeal to me, such is the control and formality that Dog Point shows on its finish." 18.5/20

The Wine Advocate: “The 2024 Sauvignon Blanc leads with a distinct nose of freshly picked curry leaf, crushed sea shells, lemon zest, asphalt, mustard seed, dried coriander/coriander seed and white flesh orchard fruit. This is powerfully fruited, has great energy and drive and, unsurprisingly, offers great pleasure and satisfying drinking. This is a very smart, savoury wine here. 13.5% alcohol, sealed under screw cap. Drink now-2034.” 95 points

Jancis Robinson MW: “Piercing nose and a really delicate palate. Lovely! With a chalky-textured finish.” 17 points

JancisRobinson.com (Alder Yarrow): “Smells of struck match and salty lemon and lime zest. Salty lime and lemon pith mix with a touch of cut grass and dried herbs. Lovely stony, salty and bright, with fantastic acidity. Mouth-watering.” 17.5 points

The Real Review: "An absolute stand-out wine from the 2024 vintage, this has all the telltale Dog Point flinty reduction which seems to mark all of their wines. This is made from Dog Point's organic parcels and is a wine which has a good track record of ageing in the mid-term. Distinctive reduction on the nose leads to quite a structured palate with layered complexity over a ripe core of apple. Young, tight and with very good concentration, this is classic, displaying lovely balance and length on the pure, precise finish where a touch of minerality emerges." 94 points