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It was an exciting day for wine lovers when Cloudy Bay’s former viticulturalist and winemaker Ivan Sutherland and James Healy decided to go out on their own. This is their brilliant, 93-point Sauvignon, with bright, gooseberry, minerally complexity.
Tasting notes
Bright gooseberry and green stone fruit; taut, minerally, intense
Aroma
Gooseberry and tropical fruit notes; a stony mineral streak
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Meet Dog Point – an outstanding, award winning range of wines from New Zealand’s Marlborough region. In 2004 Ivan Sutherland and James Sealy decided to take the skills they’d learnt as viticulturalist and winemaker at Cloudy Bay and set up on their own. They had a head start as Ivan had planted vineyards in Marlborough back in the 1970s. Dog Point is now one of the region’s top producers. James Suckling has written: “This really takes Sauvignon to another place for Marlborough, exposing the edgy, exciting and minerally possibilities whilst embracing the rampant intensity of fruit.” Using hand picked grapes, part fermented with wild yeasts, the wine is meticulously made and expressive of the varietal as well as the Wairau Valley terroir.