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Bob Campbell MW95 points
- Variety Sauvignon Blanc
- Vintage 2023
- Brand Cloudy Bay
- Cellaring Drink Now
- Wine Type White
- Alcohol Percentage 13.3% Alcohol
Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc 2023"Established in 1985, Cloudy Bay was one of the first five wine makers to vent..."$50.00 -
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- Variety Sauvignon Blanc
- Vintage 2020
- Brand Andre Dezat
- Cellaring 3-5 Years
- Wine Type White
- Alcohol Percentage 12.5% Alcohol
Andre Dezat Sancerre 2020"The DEZAT family is one of the oldest wine-growing families in Sancerre. Refe..."$54.99 -
- Variety Sauvignon Blanc
- Vintage 2017
- Brand Clos Henri
- Cellaring 3-5 Years
- Wine Type White
- Alcohol Percentage 14.0% Alcohol
Clos Henri Sauvignon Blanc 2017"A ripe tropical and citrus bouquet, with underlying flinty minerality. In the..."$59.99 -
- Variety Sauvignon Blanc
- Vintage 2018
- Brand Clos Henri
- Cellaring 3-5 Years
- Wine Type White
- Alcohol Percentage 14.0% Alcohol
Clos Henri Sauvignon Blanc 2018"A ripe tropical and citrus bouquet, with underlying flinty minerality. In the..."$59.99 -
- Variety Sauvignon Blanc
- Vintage 2021
- Brand Andre Dezat
- Cellaring 3-5 Years
- Wine Type White
- Alcohol Percentage 12.5% Alcohol
Firmin Dezat Sancerre 2021"The Dezat family is one of the oldest wine-growing families in Sancerre. Refe..."$54.99 -
- Variety Sauvignon Blanc
- Vintage 2019
- Brand Henri Bourgeois
- Cellaring 1-3 Years
- Wine Type White
- Alcohol Percentage 12.5% Alcohol
Henri Bourgeois Sancerre Blanc 'La Vigne Blanche' 2019"The original and still the best style of Sauvignon Blanc. Fresh green grass l..."$59.99 -
- Variety Sauvignon Blanc
- Vintage 2020
- Brand Jonathan Didier Pabiot
- Cellaring 5-10 Years
- Wine Type White
- Alcohol Percentage 13.0% Alcohol
Jonathan Didier Pabiot Pouilly Fume Leon 2020"The former Florilège with a new name, Léon is Jonathan Didier Pabiot’s callin..."$65.00
Sauvignon Blanc is a white grape, that has become incredibly popular, with increased plantings in Australia over the last 10 years. It grows best in the cooler wine regions.
Yarra Valley, Adelaide Hills, Margaret River, Orange in New South Wales and Tasmania are all regions which produce wonderful examples of Sauvignon Blanc. The coolest vintages have “grassy”, gooseberry characters, whereas, warmer vintages show more passionfruit flavour, but still with the trademark zingy acidity. In Margaret River, Sauvignon Blanc is often blended with Semillon, this creates a perfect partnership and a fuller style of wine. In New Zealand, Cloudy Bay in the 1980s began producing stunning Sauvignon Blanc wines with extraordinarily intense nettly, gooseberry, and asparagus fruit, that set Marlborough firmly on the world wine map. Today Sauvignon Blanc is now New Zealand's trademark grape.
Sauvignon Blanc is an important white grape in France, especially Bordeaux and the Loire Valley. It thrives on the gravelly soils of Bordeaux, where it is blended with Sémillon to produce Bordeaux Blancs and Cru Classé White Graves. Elsewhere in Bordeaux, it is also blended with Sémillon, to produce the amazing dessert wines of Sauternes. In the Loire Valley and particularly on the chalky soils found in Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé. The wines produced are very different to New World equivalents, they tend to be less pungent, more restrained, mineral with smoky, gunflint notes.
After initial problems, it is now grown very successfully in Chile. The wines are almost halfway between the Loire and New Zealand in terms of fruit character.