In message >
Mike Tommasi > wrote:

> Timothy Hartley wrote:
>> In message >
>> Mike Tommasi > wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Daisy wrote:
>>>
>>>>Please tell me what is sauv.blanc called in France?
>>>
>>>Sancerre (blanc)
>>>Pouilly Fumé
>>
>> 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•
>
> 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