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Whitehaven Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2026 750ml
🇳🇿 Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc with a bright, balanced style.
Whitehaven · Marlborough, New Zealand · 2026
Whitehaven Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc is made from 100% Marlborough-sourced Sauvignon Blanc grapes, with a distinctively bright and balanced style. This 2026 bottling comes from New Zealand’s South Island, offering an introduction to Whitehaven’s regional focus.
Whitehaven, is made with 100% Marlborou...Show More >
Whitehaven · Marlborough, New Zealand · 2026
Whitehaven Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc is made from 100% Marlborough-sourced Sauvignon Blanc grapes, with a distinctively bright and balanced style. This 2026 bottling comes from New Zealand’s South Island, offering an introduction to Whitehaven’s regional focus.
Whitehaven, is made with 100% Marlborough sourced grapes for a distinctively bright & balanced style that has earned us consistently high scores and made us the most awarded New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc.
A brilliant pale-straw wine with lemon, green apple, lemongrass, passion fruit and saline minerality. Its focused, fruit-forward palate brings pineapple husk, crushed chalk and a crisp herbaceous edge, with lively acidity and a long, clean finish. These tasting notes and the review excerpts below refer to 2025, not the 2026 vintage.
Previous Vintage Reviews: 2025
Wine Advocate, 93 Points, Vintage 2025: “Piercing and intense… pure and pristine, focused and saline. The acidity is like a bell tolling on a cold morning. It’s excellent.”
James Suckling, 90 Points, Vintage 2025: “Very pretty and balanced… flavorful and seductive.”
Serving & Pairing
Serve chilled. Suggested pairings include oysters, grilled fish, goat cheese, green salads and Thai cuisine. Enjoy young for freshness.
Details
- Producer: Whitehaven
- Vintage: 2026
- Country: New Zealand
- Region: South Island
- Appellation: Marlborough
- Grape: Sauvignon Blanc
- Type: White wine
- Farming: Sustainable
- Closure: Screwcap
- Bottle Size: 750ml
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Wine Information:
Country: New Zealand
Region: South Island
Sub-Region:
Appellation: Marlborough
Variety: Sauvignon Blanc
Type: Whites
Size: 750ml
Choose when time is of the essence
Whitehaven captures intense notes of passionfruit, lemongrass and white peach in this bold, refreshing Sauvignon Blanc. Superbly structured and elegantly balanced, with fresh-snipped greens and citrus characteristics that blend effortlessly with notes of tropical fruit. Each glass boasts the long, clean finish of classic Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc. With its bright character and crisp finish, Whitehaven Sauvignon Blanc pairs beautifully with a wide range of dishes. A chilled glass of Whitehaven is particularly refreshing alongside fresh seafood, spicy Asian dishes, grilled chicken or summer salads.
Expert Review - Prior Vintages 2024, 2023
Wine Enthusiast - 91 Points The life of the party, this lucid, bombastic Savvy B offers up heady lime, lemongrass and pink grapefruit aromas, with a whisper of dried herbs below. There's a gently slippery quality to the texture. In rushes the limey acidity to dial it up a notch—or ten. (vintage 2024).
Erin Larkin writes: The 2023 Sauvignon Blanc is bright and tropical, with green apple and kiwi fruit, lemon pith and finger lime. Plenty of light and juicy things to be getting on with here. This is a lovely wine—uncomplicated and satisfying. 13% alcohol, sealed under screw cap. Drinking 2024 to 2027. - Robert Parker Wine Advocate 90 (vintage 2023).
MaryAnn Worobiec writes: White pepper, lemon blossom and fresh ginger notes are vibrant and expressive, with a mouthwatering core of lime, pomelo, lemon balm and lemongrass lingering on the finish. Drink now. - Wine Spectator 90 (vintage 2023).
Rebecca Gibb MW writes: The 2023 Sauvignon Blanc is pure, clean and aromatic. Dry and zesty, it provides pristine fruit flavors akin to lime, lemongrass and passion fruit. Light-bodied with modest concentration of flavor and fleeting length, it's nevertheless a balanced, punchy style that will be widely enjoyed by the glass in the summer months. Drinking 2024 to 2026. - Vinous 87 (vintage 2023).
James Suckling writes: Aromas of green melon, green apples and some lemon rind follow through to a medium body with fresh fruit and a simple finish. Clean and easy. Drink now. Screw cap. - James Suckling 87 (vintage 2023).
Roger Jones, Freddy Bulmer, Cat Lomax write: Light citrus and peach juice nose. Nicely balanced with lingering green fruit, citrus curd and kiwi fruit. - Decanter 85 (vintage 2023).