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Sauvignon Blanc White Wine
Sauvignon Blanc
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Charles Wetmore, founder of the Cresta Blanca winery, brought the first cuttings of Sauvignon Blanc to California in the latter half of the 19th century. Some of the vines came from the vineyards of the legendary Sauternes Chateau Y'Quem, the world's most expensive and famous dessert wine. These plantings did well in the Livermore Valley and Sauvignon Blanc became one most sought after dry whites from California. Eventually, Sauvignon Blanc became a varietal and is now known by many as in California as "Fumé Blanc".
Sauvignon Blanc vines tend to be quite vigorous growers, so it is especially important to manage the canopy by careful pruning and even by thinning leaves and shoots to direct the plant's energy towards ripening the fruit. Vines that are just left to grow are often lacking in any really distinguishing flavours and go relatively unnoticed.
The varietal identity of Sauvignon Blanc is typically similar to grass (the lawn kind), bell-pepper, or grapefruit in nature. Most of the inhabitants of New Zealand would argue that its quite like "gooseberry", but most Americans would sharply disagree. Quite often Sauvignon Blanc picks up an aggressive "catbox" odor when the grapes lack sun exposure or are harvested underripe. Clonal selection and viticultural practices that expose the grapes to more sunlight yield wine that is more melon-like in aroma. Creation of far more resiliant clones have cured some of the problems of growing in quite humid environments due to this variety's disposition to develop "powdery mildew" and "black rot".
Apart from these 2 locales, Sauvignon Blanc thrives in a few other parts of the globether likes of New Zealand and South Africa, Chile, Argentina, these are some of the major players in the production of sauvignon blanc and here are some of the minor players all be it still some of the best, Washington State, Australia, and Italy. With fairly good tonnage per acre and lacking the inflationary consumer demand of Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc is often a very good value.
Sauvignon blanc is a green-skinned grape variety which probably could have been first found in the Bordeaux region of France many years ago. It is now planted in much of the world's winelands, producing refreshing white varietal wine.
In California until the 1970s it was usually made as a nondescript semi-sweet wine until Robert Mondavi made a dry varietal he named Fumé Blanc which became so successful that the name Fumé Blanc is now recognised as a legal synonym for Sauvignon Blanc in the US.
DNA research has identified Sauvignon blanc and Cabernet Franc as the parents of Cabernet Sauvignon.
Sauvignon blanc is enjoyed with fish or cheese. Along with Riesling, it was one of the very first fine wines to find itself being bottled in screwcap for commercial quantities, especially by New Zealand producers. It is usually drunk young, as it does not particularly benefit from ageing. Dry and sweet white Bordeaux, typically made with Sauvignon blanc as a major component, is the one exception.
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