Jules Taylor Wines

Born in Marlborough in the year the first vines were planted, Jules has literally grown up with Sauvignon Blanc. She trained as a winemaker at Lincoln University, cut her teeth at Cloudy Bay and Kim Crawford Wines, and squeezed in nine vintages in Italy along the way — five of them in Sicily — before going out on her own in 2001 with 400 cases and a lot of self-belief. Named New Zealand Winemaker of the Year in 2021, she's spent more than two decades championing Marlborough and its grape-growing families, and has made some of the region's best known and most successful wines.