The 2007 Dog Point Chardonnay is a chablis look-alike chardonnay, with concentrated lime and petrichor has lovely notes of peach, pear and apricots coupled with a very subtle taste of integrated new oak.

Dog Point Vineyard is located in Marlborough. The vineyard combines the huge winegrowing experience of Ivan Sutherland and James Healy, former chief viticulturalist and head winemaker for Cloudy Bay.
The name Dog Point comes from the earliest European settlement of Marlborough and the introduction of sheep to the district. Days of few fences, boundary riders and boundary keeping dogs. Shepherd's dogs sometimes became lost or wandered off, and bred into a marauding pack which sometimes attacked the local flocks. Their home was a tussock and scrub covered hill, overlooking the Wairau Plains, named by the early settlers as Dog Point.

To go in the draw to win a bottle of 2007 Dog Point Chardonnay, simply register on www.sunlive.co.nz then send us an email telling us where Dog Point Vineyard is located. Send your answer, along with your name, contact address and phone number to [email protected] with the subject line "SunLive Dog Point Chardonnay Competition".

Entrants must be aged 18 years or over. Entries must be received by March 29.

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