One of the world's most intriguing wine stories of the last quarter-century has to be the astonishingly rapid rise onto the world stage of New Zealand sauvignon blanc.
In fact, about 25 years ago it would have been next to impossible to find a single bottle of that wine in a United States fine wine shop. Today we can find several different versions in grocery stores around the world and it's widely available in restaurants. Literally dozens of Kiwi wineries now export to the United States.
Updated: Wed Oct 12, 2022