Sutherland and Healy
A successful partnership in wine 

Dog Point Vineyard is the wine prodigy of two wine-growing couples - Ivan and Margaret Sutherland and James and Wendy Healy. After leaving Cloudy Bay, the team began making wines from Sutherland's own vineyards, which were planted in the 70's and 80's. The wines are very much expressions of their own tastes and styles. Grapes are all hand-picked, and, with the exception of the stainless sauvignon, all wines are given extended barrel ageing with minimal racking and handling. The secret is to employ a non-interventionist, natural, hands-off technique which  gives the wines the unique taste.

The successful partnership is based on total involvement by the partners from the vineyard through the winemaking process to marketing regionally distinctive and vineyard expressive wines.

Dog Point is home to one of New Zealand’s cultural and ecological treasures, 'ti kouka'. Commonly known as the cabbage tree, ti kouka is an attractive, distinctive, hardy native New Zealand plant and is an aesthetic feature of the Dog Point landscape.

Its remarkable natural qualities and strong signature of geographical identity have a synergy with the wines of Dog Point, which are a natural expression of the land from which they are created.

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Buy Dog Point Wines

• 2006 Dog Point Sauvignon Blanc (Marlborough, New Zealand)