Wine Savvy with a look to the future (NZ)

The New Year chimed in with the ring of empty Sauvignon Blanc bottles hitting recycling bins across the country. Our flagship grape remains a favourite with local wine drinkers, but the domination by this single variety of both our vineyards and export markets – in a way witnessed in no other major winemaking nation – means there’s an awful lot riding on this one grape: something the industry is increasingly mindful of as it puts its recent oversupply issues behind it and enters a new year and a new era, writes Jo Burzynsca in the New Zealand Herald.