2023 Yealands Sauvignon Blanc (New Zealand, South Island, Marlborough, Awatere Valley)
The bottle had a NZ Sustainability seal on it. We visited the winery and walked around the vineyards which go to the edge of the cliffs. There are tall poles erected throughout the vineyards with loudspeakers playing classical music to the vines. Sheep graze the grass rows between vines and there are wooden huts on wheels that are moved around housing ducks that eat snails that would otherwise eat grapes. The winery roof is covered by solar panels and the are wind powered generators whose blades catch sea breezes.
None of which would matter if the wine was no good. But it is.
It's a classic NZ savvie, crisp clean and dry, with grassy and subdued gooseberry notes. Mrs M, who bought it (and drank most of it), said it was almost as good as Villa Maria - which is high praise indeed.
Yealands sustainabilty - https://www.yealands.co.nz/sustainability/