Sauvignon blanc is one of the world’s most popular white wines, and for a columnist who started writing about wine 45 years ago, that’s a shock.
I’ve always been a fan of it and hoped it would get popular. In the early 1980s, I wrote that this variety was well under the radar and was unlikely to gain wide traction.
I hope that column in some small way helped put sauvignon blanc on the vinous map as well as on the tongues of readers. However it happened, the variety now thrives worldwide.
What makes it endlessly fascinating to those who get genuinely serious about it is how it reflects the places from which it comes. Thus, it’s a case example of last week’s column in which I wrote of regional identity of certain foods and wines.
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