Dog Point Section 94 Sauvignon Blanc 2019

Dog Point Vineyard is New Zealand's largest certified organic vineyard by Biogro NZ, with over 280 hectares farmed organically on the hill slopes of the Southern Valleys of Marlborough.

Its family owned and one of the oldest privately established vineyards, with the first plantings in the late 1970s by Ivan and Margaret Sutherland. Today, the next generation of the family runs the day-to-day operations.

They produce four wines including a Sauvignon Blanc, and three barrel fermented wines using natural (wild) yeasts including a Sauvignon Blanc fermented in older French oak barrels, a Chardonnay and a Pinot Noir. Their primary focus is producing wines of uncompromising quality that will cellar well.

The name Dog Point dates back to the days when dogs were the only means of protecting and managing sheep in the region.

The grapes were hand harvested from a single parcel within the organically farmed Dog Point vineyard, planted in 1992, and whole-bunch pressed to tank and the juice was cold settled for twenty four hours. Fermentation took place in mostly older French oak barrels using indigenous yeasts. The wine was then aged for eighteen months in barrel before being bottled unfined.