Usher in the new season with wines that are light, fresh and packed with grassy green flavours
Green lights: ‘No country has done more to popularise sauvignon than New Zealand.’ Photograph: Getty Images
Green lights: ‘No country has done more to popularise sauvignon than New Zealand.’ Photograph: Getty Images
Sun 14 Mar 2021 01.00 EST
Dog Point Sauvignon Blanc, Marlborough, New Zealand 2020 (from £14.95, thewinesociety.com; bbr.com) There is no more spring-like wine than sauvignon blanc, which at its best seems to mimic all the fragrant coming-back-to-life of the season with wines that are full of green energy, bursting with verdant scents and flavours. No country has done more to popularise the grape variety than New Zealand, of course, and specifically the Marlborough region on the northern tip of the South Island, which has been transformed in quite staggering fashion in the past few decades. The first sauvignon vines didn’t arrive in Marlborough until the 1970s. At