Sauvignon Blanc, New Zealand

Vineyard area: 2020 25,160 ha making it New Zealand’s most widely planted variety with 63% of the national production area, and 56% of the country’s total production area is Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc (WINZ).

Biodiversity: ‘Before the early 1990s every Sauvignon Blanc vine planted in New Zealand could be traced to a single clone imported from the United States (Hilary Wright: 2000, p.64)