Producer Notes:

We are delighted to launch our 2020 Sauvignon Blanc, which is the product of a most extraordinary year.

The growing season of 2019/2020 was close to ideal and the fruit came into the winery was as close to perfect as could be imagined. On the 25th March, however, just at the beginning of harvest, New Zealand went into lockdown due to the COVID19 pandemic. The wine industry was fortunately permitted to work to bring in the grapes, but under extremely challenging conditions.

Yang Shen, Estate Director for Cloudy Bay says,  “While the conditions under which we worked were far from ideal, we feel so privileged to have been allowed to work and bring in this amazing vintage. We couldn’t have done it without the hard work and dedication of our team, who worked diligently and professionally despite the additional stress that the Covid restrictions added. This vintage will always be memorable, because of what we went through to make it happen, but we believe it will also be memorable as one of Cloudy Bay’s best vintages.”