Appellation Marlborough Wine announces 2025 Collection
Appellation Marlborough Wine (AMW) has announced its Annual Collection for 2025 – showcasing a benchmark selection of 12 certified Marlborough Sauvignon Blancs.
First launched in 2022, the initiative is designed to celebrate the diversity, quality, and authenticity that define the region.
This year, 93 AMW-Certified wines were tasted blind over an eight-hour session by a panel comprising New Zealand judges Stephen Wong MW and Cameron Douglas MS, alongside Australia’s Toni Paterson MW.
Appellation Marlborough Wine unveils its 2025 Collection
Michael Wentworth, CEO of AMW, says, “The panel’s collective expertise mirrors the rigour of our certification process; through robust discussion and careful deliberation they have identified the 12 wines that best represent our benchmark, across our diverse sub-regions and styles.”
Stephen Wong MW says the panel noted that 2025 vintage saw the return of a more classical Marlborough flavour profile. “...a combination of herbaceous and fruity, firmly rooted in gooseberry, capsicum, blackberry leaf and passionfruit.
“We saw wines that captured both lightness and vibrancy, as well as those expressing saline and gravelly minerality. The vintage reinforces Marlborough’s ability to deliver wines of purity, balance and enduring character.”
The 2025 selection also includes four wines from previous vintages, with Stephen Wong adding: “...two from the intensely concentrated 2024 vintage and two long-aged styles from 2023. This crucial part of the Marlborough story highlights the depth and diversity of Sauvignon Blanc when made with ageability in mind.”
The 2025 AMW Collection
• Blank Canvas Holdaway Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc 2025
• Clos Henri Estate Sauvignon Blanc 2025
• Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc 2025
• Cloudy Bay Te Koko Sauvignon Blanc 2023
• Greywacke Wild Sauvignon 2023
• Holdaway Estate Reserve Sauvignon Blanc 2025
• ROHE Blind River Sauvignon Blanc by Rapaura Springs 2025
• ROHE Rapaura Sauvignon Blanc by Rapaura Springs 2025
• Tapi Sauvignon Blanc 2025
• te Pā Sauvignon Blanc Oke 2024
• The Paper Nautilus Sauvignon Blanc 2024
• Whitehaven Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2025
