Dog Point Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc 2023

For those of you who somehow don’t know Dog Point, it is the joint project between James Healy and founding viticulturist Ivan Sutherland who left their kush jobs at Cloudy Bay and decided to form a second act.

Incredibly, these two superstars make wines that are just as compelling and highly regarded as their old wines. For instance, it’s pretty darn rare that you’d have a Sauvignon Blanc from New Zealand that consistently garners 92-94 scores, and Dog Point Vineyard has proven to be no ordinary winery.

This is an extraordinary Sauvignon Blanc and not just by New Zealand standards – but period. The wines are hand-crafted (no mechanical harvesting, which is very rare here) from organic estate fruit grown on some of the oldest vines and best sites in Marlborough. It’s tantalizingly good Sauvignon Blanc that delivers what Vinous perfectly describes as both “focus and punch.”

The best way to describe the Sauvignon Blancs from Dog Point are electric. The 2023 Estate bottling one has incredible energy from the nose all the way through the finish. James Suckling called it “clean and crisp” with “lovely acidity and a delicious finish” in his 92-point review. Vinous echoed the praise also smitten by a finish they called, “long, precise and sinewy” in their own 93-point write-up. The big scores never slow down here.