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Kono Sauvignon Blanc Marlborough 2024 — Marlborough, New Zealand
Kono is a New Zealand wine brand with deep roots in the Māori community — owned by Wakatu Incorporation, one of New Zealand’s largest Māori-owned businesses, with ancestral connections to the top of the South Island stretching back centuries. Their Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc is sourced from the sun-drenched Wairau and Awatere valleys, where the combination of intense sunlight, cool nights, and free-draining soils produces the region’s signature style: vivid, aromatic, and unmistakably fresh.
Bart Hopkins of 67 Wine writes | The 2024 is a textbook Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc — and then some. The nose bursts with citrus and tropical fruit: lime, kiwi, passion fruit, guava, and lemon zest. On the palate, luscious fruit flavors are balanced by notes of currant leaf and fresh bell pepper, with zesty acidity, underlying minerality, and a long, dry, persistent finish. Wine Spectator praised its “crisp and vibrant” lemon, pear, and apple flavors with notes of lemon verbena and fresh ginger.
Wine Spectator — “Lemon, pear and apple flavors are crisp and vibrant, with notes of lemon verbena, lemon thyme and fresh ginger.”
- Producer: Kono (Wakatu Incorporation), Marlborough, New Zealand
- Vintage: 2024
- Appellation: Marlborough, South Island, New Zealand
- Varietal: Sauvignon Blanc
- Closure: Screwcap
- Format: 750ml
- Tasting Notes: Lime, kiwi, passion fruit, guava, lemon zest, currant leaf, bell pepper, mineral finish
- Best Paired With: Oysters, grilled fish, goat cheese, Thai cuisine, green salads, sushi
A benchmark Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc at an everyday price — Kono delivers everything you want from New Zealand’s most iconic white.
