
And, like all BIB wines, will stay fresh for up to six weeks after opening. Characterful and complex with layered flavours of citrus, apple and hay, plus a welcome minerality, this is a beautifully balanced wine with which to welcome the summer. “This lovely wine epitomises what premium, new generation boxed wine is all about,” he adds. As such, it fulfils BIB co-founder and managing director Oliver Lea’s dictum that everybody should be able to enjoy fine wine any way they want. It’s a serious wine from winemakers whose vineyard history stretches back 14 generations. We always think of New Zealand as the home of sauvignon blanc, but its true birthplace is France’s Loire Valley where the grape is used to produce supremely stylish and tangy dry white wines such as sancerre.

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