Sauvignon blanc

Sancerre (blanc) Pouilly Fumé

Mike Why some are called Pouilly Blanc and others Pouilly Blanc Fume, or am I being pedantic. John

Daisy,

In France the grape is also called Sauvignon Blanc. I't's the grape of the river Loire in the northwest of France. Famous Sauvignon Blanc wines are Sancerre and Pouilly fumé. But also in the south of France grows the Sauvignon Blanc grape. The degree of acidity is for the Sauvignon Blanc grape in France much higher then in New Zealand.

A famous winemaker of Sauvignon Blanc is: Domaine Henry Pelle, look at:

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In a different style, you get Sauv Blanc from Pessac-Leognan - not always blended with Semillion. E g Smith Haut Lafite, 95% Sauv Blanc, 5% Sauv Gris (a clone with more color and, I think, milder taste). The difference in style rests in the fifferent clima (warmer in Bordeaux) and oak aging.

Cheers

N ils Gustaf

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It´s always Pouilly Fumé - when we discuss the Sauvignon Blanc from the right-hand side of the Loire. A Pouilly FUmé is always white (blanc), and always made from SB. However, sometimes wines from e g California made from Sauv Bl are labelled as Fumé Blanc, if I remember correctly. I seem to recollect thaat this stems from some certain producer. HTH Nils Gustaf

There is also a much cheaper Sauvignon Blanc which can be very good. It has recently been promoted from VDQS to AoC as St. Bris. St.Bris-le-Vineux, as its name suggests has ben making wine for many hundred years. It is above Irancy and over the river (Yonne) from Auxerre and over the hills from Chablis! It is there that I saw the wonderful suggestion "Si le vin te gêne dans ton travail, supprime le travail" and the happy comment that ”Le bon vin et l‘amour fait passer d‘heureux jours•

(Loosely translated, respectively, ”If wine get in the way of work, give up work• and ”Good wine and love while away happy days•

Tim Hartley

Yes, indeed...

Now I was trying to keep it simple, but when you dig deeper you find that sauvignon is 21% of the grapes planted for white wine in Bordeaux. Now 21% of 15000ha is a lot of grapes... more than the sauvignon grown in Sancerre and Pouilly Fumé AOCs together...

But it is quite often blended with Semillon rather than being bottled on its own.

Tim Hartley

In fact, probably always blended.

Well I have occasionally had straight Sauvignon Blanc though it is not something for which I would necessarily hunt a long way or pay a high price.

Timothy Hartley

Nils, I believe it was Robert Mondavi who used "Fume Blanc" first. others will correct me if I'm wrong. :)

Dan-O (you say potato, I say fumato)

Hello; No Mike, that is not so - as I pointed out, Smith haut Lafite is all Sauvignon (95 % blanc, 5 % Gris) and a lovely drink BTW, if pricey.

Cheers

Nils Gustaf

Too right!

A nice Sauvignon St. Bris to look for is from Sorin DeFrance. Very reliable, available, and inexpensive to boot.

-E

There is also Sauvignon blanc grown in regions of the Loire outside of the AOCs already mentioned. For instance, there's the Ouily-Thesée co-op or Clos Roches Blanches in the Touraine, both of which are usually great values.

Mark Lipton

Mark Lipton

Speaking of New Zealand and Sauvignon Blanc, did anyone else see the thread on the Squires board where Bartholomew Broadbent said NZ imports sauvignon blanc from Chile to blend with its wine?

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Ooops. My bad: I stand corrected. Thank you for pointing it out. Apart from that, their Ch Cantelys Blanc contains regularly 50 % Semillion. I have not had the pleasure of tasting that, though - I read some positive taste notes about it in a Danish magazine a few months back.

Cheers

Nils Gustaf

JFTMOR: "Blanc fumé" *is* actually a synonym for sauvignon in the Loire region.

M.

Salut/Hi Daisy,

le/on Fri, 27 Jan 2006 20:42:15 +1300, tu disais/you said:-

In France wines are mainly named by the region in which they are grown, the trick therefore is to know which regions grow Sauvignon Blanc and Gris

Mike is right that Sancerre and Pouilly sur loire (where they call it Pouilly-Fumé because of the smoky flint-like smell it can have).

But he didn't mention that Bergerac and Bordeaux whites also have mainly SBs as well.