Duck Hunter Wines is a fully owner-operated winery, personally run by co-owners Mark Wilson & Rosie McLean. The brand’s focus is to produce premium quality New Zealand wines that embrace and express the diversity of Marlborough’s growing regions. By utilizing select fruit from unique sites spread across the 3 sub-regions of Marlborough, we endeavour to craft wines that offer the quality and complexity to compete with top producers, while remaining very price competitve. Production has grown from 500 cases in 2012, when the brand was established, to over 30,000 cases in 2020. Currently exported to nine countries and widely available throughout New Zealand. 

Duck Hunter’s flagship wine is our award-winning Sauvignon Blanc. The goal each year is to create a balanced classic Marlborough Sauv that is lively on the palate with rich fruit, complemented by a lingering fresh acidity. Each vintage is carefully blended with a focus on balancing the   contrasts of the cooler/dryer Awatere Valley, known for its crisp acidity and herbaceous minerality, with the warmer/wetter Wairau Valley and Waihopai Valley, which contribute characteristics of citrus/lemon/peach.  The result is a wine that is proudly 100% Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc, as well as being 100% sustainably grown and produced. 

Awarded 90+ points consecutively for the past five vintages by Wine Spectator. 

Please refer to our webpage for our full stable of wines and past accolades.