Like skiing down the side of Mount Cook without a jacket - cool, refreshing citrus colliding with sweet peach and apricot. Exhilarating stuff.
 
Named after the satellite listening post located over the road from the winery, Spy Valley is in the Waihopai Valley in Marlborough. Happily for us they appear more interested in fine wine than exploding cigars, and recent vintages have seen the winery's trophy cabinet filled to bursting. Like most Marlborough wineries, Pinot Noir and Sauvignon Blanc are Spy Valley specialties but winemaker Ant Mackenzie and his team also make a great range of aromatic whites including Riesling, Gewurztraminer and Pinot Gris. Their quality was recognised in March 2007 when the winery became the first ever producer to win four trophies in the same year at the Sydney Wine Show.

Classic NZ Sauvignon characters of gooseberry and asparagus, with ripe melon really delicately balanced and at the same time deliciously quaffable. A class act.
 
Named after the satellite listening post located over the road from the winery, Spy Valley is in the Waihopai Valley in Marlborough. Happily for us they appear more interested in fine wine than exploding cigars, and recent vintages have seen the winery's trophy cabinet filled to bursting. Like most Marlborough wineries, Pinot Noir and Sauvignon Blanc are Spy Valley specialties but winemaker Ant Mackenzie and his team also make a great range of aromatic whites including Riesling, Gewurztraminer and Pinot Gris. Their quality was recognised in March 2007 when the winery became the first ever producer to win four trophies in the same year at the Sydney Wine Show.

Hugely elegant and powerful Pinot from these Marlborough magicians. Strawberry, raspberry and chocolate flavours all seamlessly bound together with a smoky oak finish.
 
Father and son, John and Brent Marris have been at the forefront of Kiwi winemaking from the word go. Back in the 1970s John was one of the first farmers to plant vines in Marlborough and a bit later on Brent became one of the first New Zealanders to graduate from Adelaide's Roseworthy College. Returning to Marlborough, Brent founded Wither Hills using his father's fruit and quickly built a formidable reputation for his wines. Today Wither Hills are regarded as benchmark producers for Kiwi Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir

Benchmark NZ Sauvignon with intense gooseberry, ripe herbal lime notes underpinned by the classically pungent melon, guava and passionfruit aromatics.
 
Father and son, John and Brent Marris have been at the forefront of Kiwi winemaking from the word go. Back in the 1970s John was one of the first farmers to plant vines in Marlborough and a bit later on Brent became one of the first New Zealanders to graduate from Adelaide's Roseworthy College. Returning to Marlborough, Brent founded Wither Hills using his father's fruit and quickly built a formidable reputation for his wines. Today Wither Hills are regarded as benchmark producers for Kiwi Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir