The Winery Makutu Bay of Marlborough of South Island

Winery Makutu Bay
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.1.
It is ranked in the top 89 of the estates of South Island.
It is located in Marlborough in the region of South Island

The Winery Makutu Bay is one of the world's great estates. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Marlborough to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Makutu Bay wines

Looking for the best Winery Makutu Bay wines in Marlborough among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Makutu Bay wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Makutu Bay wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Winery Makutu Bay

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Makutu Bay

How Winery Makutu Bay wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, vegetarian or goat cheese such as recipes of tagliatelle with seafood and saffron cream, cream and tuna quiche or spinach and goat cheese cannelloni.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Makutu Bay

On the nose the white wine of Winery Makutu Bay. often reveals types of flavors of earth, vegetal or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of citrus fruit, floral or tropical fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Makutu Bay. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Makutu Bay

  • 2019With an average score of 4.00/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Makutu Bay.

  • Sauvignon Blanc

Discovering the wine region of Marlborough

The wine region of Marlborough is located in the region of South Island of New Zealand. We currently count 1237 estates and châteaux in the of Marlborough, producing 3419 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Marlborough go well with generally quite well with dishes .

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Makutu Bay

Planning a wine route in the of Marlborough? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Makutu Bay.

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignon blanc

Originally from Bordeaux, Sauvignon, or Sauvignon Blanc, is reputed to be one of the best French grape varieties for white wine. It is a white grape variety, not to be confused with Sauvignon Gris and its pale yellow color, or with Cabernet Sauvignon which produces red wines. Particularly famous thanks to Sancerre, Sauvignon Blanc is cultivated as far as New Zealand, where it produces great wines whose reputation is well established.

News about Winery Makutu Bay and wines from the region

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

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Decanter World Wine Awards 2022: Results announced

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The word of the wine: Stave

A slat of wood that makes up the barrel.