For decades, Cloudy Bay Vineyards has been nearly synonymous with New Zealand sauvignon blanc. The winery helped define the category with its first sauvignon blanc vintage in 1985, setting a ...

Sauvignon Blanc is historically connected to two French winemaking regions: the Loire Valley and Bordeaux. It most likely originated in the former, which today still makes single-variety expressions ...

It wasn’t until the turn of the century that it exploded as one of the most prolific regions for Sauvignon Blanc in the world. Pioneering this new frontier was Cloudy Bay, one of the first five ...

He christened it Cloudy Bay. Along with British-born-but-Aussie-adopted winemaker Kevin Judd, he produced cool-climate Sauvignon Blanc that to this day remains one of the world’s most dynamic ...

For something more familiar, the 2021 Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc, also from Marlborough, shows a different side of the variety, with vibrant lime and ginger notes, as well as passionfruit and hard ...

The core Cloudy Bay Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc retails at $35, with 85,000 cases imported for the 2022 vintage, up from 77,000 cases a year earlier. The U.S. portfolio also includes smaller amounts ...

Still, he did convey the Cloudy Bay story and lead us through a retrospective of the wine that made the vineyard -- and New Zealand -- famous: his sauvignon blanc. He gave us a little history ...

Sauvignon Blanc vineyards in the Malborough region of New Zealand Cloudy Bay has been a pioneer in the Marlborough wine region since 1985, setting high standards for this distinct New Zealand wine ...

The commercial wine industry in New Zealand had just yielded its first international success with the Cloudy Bay Winery’s sauvignon blanc from Marlborough. Since then, New Zealand has become ...

Cloudy Bay Marborough Sauvignon Blanc 2023 ($35). It can be argued that this producer put New Zealand sauvignon blanc on the map. It remains one of the most-popular choices in restaurants.

Sauvignon Blanc is historically connected to two French winemaking regions: the Loire Valley and Bordeaux. It most likely originated in the former, which today still makes single-variety expressions ...