Dog Point - Sauvignon Blanc Marlborough 2023 (750ml)

  

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Producer	Dog Point
Country	New Zealand
Region	Marlborough
Varietal	Sauvignon Blanc
Vintage	2023
Sku	210000002127
Size	750ml

Dog Point Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc 2023 

Served @ DB's "90+ Point Wines under $30"

Dog Point is in fact the result of a collaboration between two Cloudy Bay alumni, enologist James Healy and founding viticulturalist Ivan Sutherland. Both left Cloudy Bay at the end of 2003, and the first vintage of Dog Point released was the 2002 vintage.

Dog Point Vineyard’s wines are hand-crafted from estate fruit grown on some of the oldest vines and best sites in Marlborough, some plantings dating back to the 1970s. These older well-established vines situated on free draining silty clay loams are supplemented with fruit from closely planted hillside vines. The fruit for Dog Points wines are hand-harvested. Most wines in New Zealand are machine harvested (about 95%). Hand harvesting is a lot more labor intensive, however, its how the best wines are produced. Its also important to note that the Yields in Dog Points vineyard are about 50% lower than the national avg in New Zealand. This fact also contributes to the fact that Dog Point is trying to put out the best possible wines. Dog Point’s focus on pruning, soil health through organic farming, use of native yeasts and for one wine selected neutral commercial yeasts, all point to a quality and detail-obsessed producer intimately familiar with its region.

Lush and expressive, with plenty of concentration to the mix of mango, lemon curd and litsea oil flavors. Details of dried pineapple, candied ginger and crystalized orange zest add complexity and aromatics on the long finish.

Concentrated, pure fruit flavors. It’s light in body but dense in concentration thanks to low yields, displaying both focus and punch. It’s almost silvery in color and restrained, thanks to hand-picking leading to pure grapefruit and passion fruit flavors alongside a hint of nectarine. The finish is long, precise and sinewy.