Villa Maria Lightly Sparkling Sauvignon Blanc

NEW ZEALAND represents less than 1% of the world’s wine production but has become hugely influential in the past 20 years thanks to their unique take on Sauvignon Blanc.

It seems like we have been drinking New Zealand wines for decades, but it is useful to remember that over 70% of the vines in that country are less than 12 years old, and that the wines only began to appear on Irish shelves in the mid-1990s.

Sauvignon Blanc makes up around 85% of their wine exports and over 80% of that is grown in the Marlborough region at the north east corner of the South Island.