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Mike Tommasi > wrote:

> Timothy Hartley wrote:
>> In message >
>> Mike Tommasi > wrote:
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>>>Timothy Hartley wrote:
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>>>>In message >
>>>> Mike Tommasi > wrote:
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>>>>>Daisy wrote:
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>>>>>>Please tell me what is sauv.blanc called in France?
>>>>>
>>>>>Sancerre (blanc)
>>>>>Pouilly Fumé
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>>>>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...
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>>>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...
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>>>
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>> But it is quite often blended with Semillon rather than being bottled
>> on its own.
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> 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