Craggy Range Sauvignon Blanc Te Muna Road Vineyard 2023

Craggy Range continues to do things that no other New Zealand winery has ever been able to accomplish. The ‘first evers’ never cease.  This year they saw their wine as the #11 wine of the year from the stingiest expert reviewer in the world, Wine Spectator. That’s on top of recently being voted Wine Enthusiast ‘New World Winery of the Year’, and last year’s #11 ranked vineyard in the world according to 500 wine and travel experts? Not bad, right? At least it speaks volumes to the pedigree of the source. But the wine itself? Always killer.

Five different expert reviewers have checked in on Craggy Range’s newest Sauvignon Blanc and awarded it a 91-point score or better. Five. And it’s pretty easy to see why.

While most New Zealand Sauvignon Blancs give you the killer tropical aromatics and flavors, they tend to be pretty one dimensional. But for New Zealand’s hottest winery of the last decade– the rich, complex, full-bodied expression of Sauvignon Blanc cut off Te Muna Road is elegant, crisp and refreshing – much more akin to village Sancerre than their Kiwi brethren.