Dog Point
Die Sauvignon Blanc Weine von Dog Point sind für uns die Sauvignon Referenz aus Neuseeland. Über die Geschichte der Vinery kann man auf der homepage von Dog Point Folgendes lesen:
"Dog Point is an area of Marlborough named by pioneering shepherds whose dogs either wandered off or became lost.
The name Dog Point dates back to the earliest European settlement of Marlborough and the introduction of sheep to the district. These were the days where, due to a lack of fences, boundary riders used boundary keeping dogs to protect the local flocks of sheep. Shepherds' dogs sometimes became lost or wandered off, eventually breeding to form a marauding pack that attacked the same flocks they were meant to be protecting. Eventually settlers were forced to cull the dogs and the area was named Dog Point. These dogs lived on the tussock and scrub covered southern hills of Dog Point Vineyards. This landscape was, and still is, characterised by the iconic New Zealand native plant the Ti Kouka ‘cabbage’ tree which is also an established feature of the Dog Point property."