2024 Tinpot Hut Sauvignon Blanc Marlborough 750 ml

At Wine Access, there’s no other Sauvignon Blanc referred to simply as THE Sauvignon Blanc. That’s because there has never been a better-selling bottling in our entire history—just Tinpot Hut, alone at the top of the charts.

In fact, the top FOUR Sauv Blancs in our history are all Tinpot Hut. Because when it comes to value for the price, this wine dominates. 

For winemaker Fiona Turner and her husband Hamish, 17 years of pioneering work in Marlborough’s coastal subzone of Blind River are paying off handsomely. Hamish manages their Home Block vineyard, planted in 2005, and today the vines are in their prime, churning out head-turning quality, year after year.

We’ve offered every vintage of Tinpot Hut since 2017, and these wines do more than just sell well. They consistently rack up outstanding ratings, regularly coming in at 4.2 stars, head and shoulders above the average for this price point. 

The 2024 vintage, from a quality standpoint, was the second outstanding season in a row in Marlborough. Sure, quantity was down a bit, but quality was through the roof. That’s because Sauv Blanc’s normally tight bunches can increase disease vulnerability. The looser bunches of 2024 lowered disease pressure, and in the end, you had a vintage that one veteran thinks is the best he’s seen—in six decades!

In short, the 2024 vintage is another brilliant success for this standard-bearing New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc. There’s no way to have too much.