Natalie MacLean offers North America's most popular online wine and food pairing classes. She was named the World's Best Drinks Writer at the World Food Media Awards in Australia. Natalie has ...
In Bordeaux, where the grape's roots also run centuries deep, winemakers blend Sauvignon Blanc with Sémillon and small percentages of Muscadelle for dry whites and, in the Sauternes and Barsac ...
Sauvignon Blanc accounts for one in every 8 bottles of wine purchased on the Australian domestic off-trade retail market, but most of it is from New Zealand. Variety snapshots are one-page profiles of ...
Half a century ago, a wine bearing the name of a totally unfamiliar grape variety eased into the market. Sauvignon blanc vines had been in New Zealand since 1906, but languished until 1974 ...
Most wine lovers know that the word Sauvignon comes from the French word sauvage and the word blanc simply means white, but most people don’t know the reason is because when untrained vines of ...
The property’s 150-foot elevation change contributes to one of the pleasant surprises. The vineyard has two blocks of Sauvignon Blanc, one at the top of the property and one on lower land. It was the ...
In 2023, it collaborated with Villa Maria for a line of wines. However, this range is blended from scratch; a process I knew nothing about. We begin with the Sauvignon Blanc. Like a wine tasting ...