Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc

White
New Zealand
Marlborough
Sauvignon Blanc

Tracked vintages: 33
Community notes: 1,184
Merchant offers: 213

What we know about this wine

Critics: 94/ 1002025 vintage
Real drinkers: 87/ 1001,184 notes, every vintage
Market price: £25per 75 cl2024 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle shop ask, September 2026
Drinking window: 2019–2020past its window2018 · nearest vintage with a window

Flavour and structure

What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.

Structure from 2,630 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc.

Body2.6 / 5: LightFull
Acidity4.4 / 5: SoftCrisp
Sweetness1.4 / 5: DrySweet

Citrus · citrus, grapefruit, lime, lemon, lime zest
Tropical fruit · tropical, passion fruit, pineapple, guava, kiwi
Vegetal · grass, gooseberry, asparagus, straw, bell pepper
Tree fruit · green apple, peach, apple, pear, melon
Earth · minerals, stone, honey, earthy, flint
Floral · elderflower, honeysuckle, perfume, jasmine, orange blossom

Grapes: Sauvignon Blanc. Proportions are not recorded.

Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.

Realised in-bond trades£13–£32Shop asks£6–£25GBP per 75 cl · 15 priced vintages

2002One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2024

Vintages

Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.

Past its windowits window has closed
Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone

Best scored: 2025; 94 / 100 from a critic
Lowest price: 2002; £6 per 75 cl

Price by vintage

One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.

Solid: a realised in-bond tradeHatched: what a merchant is asking, which nobody has paid

Sauvignon Blanc monthly median by vintage, per 75cl · Each bar is one month of one SKU; the table below names the case size, the tape and the month behind every figure. 10 vintages are priced in a case size the merchant did not state, so no per-bottle figure is drawn for them

View as a table

Sauvignon Blanc monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
Vintage	Price / 75cl	Critic score	In drink window	Basis
2024	£25	94	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle shop ask, September 2026
2023	£26	93.3	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2025
2021	£14	93.3	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2023
2020	£17	92.7	—	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, December 2021
2019	£18	—	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2020
2018	£20	92	No	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2019
2017	£14	89.5	No	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2022
2016	£21	88.3	No	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, November 2017
2015	£22	89.5	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, February 2017
2014	£13	90	No	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2017
2013	£14	89.8	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, May 2015
2012	£13	89.3	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, October 2017
2010	£32	90	No	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, October 2017
2008	£16	88.3	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, June 2017
2002	£6	—	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026

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