Wine with Leslie: Sauvignon blanc still surprises

All the wines recommended today were chosen for ageing capability

A couple of weeks ago I was tasting 12 different vintages of a New Zealand sauvignon blanc, and loving almost all.

Wine constantly surprises me. Take sauvignon blanc, which isn’t supposed to age all that well outside the best vineyards of Pouilly-Fumé and Sancerre, and yet a couple of weeks ago I was tasting 12 different vintages of a New Zealand sauvignon blanc, and loving almost all.

The wine was Greywacke Wild Ferment and we tasted every vintage since the first in 2009. Winemaker Kevin Judd was the man who made Cloudy Bay famous and this new project was started after LVMH took over that iconic wine and they parted ways.