Sauvignon Blanc

Groot Constantia has been making wine since 1685, and the cool, Atlantic-brushed slopes below Table Mountain suit Sauvignon Blanc better ...

Silex is the flint soil that gives Sancerre its smoky edge, and this cuvée is drawn only from the Reverdy family's old vines on the clay-...

Three generations at Thauvenay, working eleven hectares of south-east facing vines that average thirty-five years old across all three Sa...

Most Sancerre at this price is built on one soil type; this blends all three, so it has the freshness of Caillottes, the weight of Terres...

Pouilly-Fumé sits on the right bank opposite Sancerre and gives Sauvignon Blanc a gunflint smokiness you will not find across the river.

Touraine Sauvignon does what Sancerre does a few miles upriver, with the same flinty clay under the vines.

Marlborough Sauvignon is usually made in steel and sold young.

Pouilly-Fumé sits across the river from Sancerre on much the same flint, and Tracy has been in one family since 1586.

Bué is one of Sancerre's best communes, and this estate holds a slice of Garennes and a full hectare of Chêne Marchand - vineyards that c...

Most Sancerre never sees a barrel.

Silex is the flint soil that gives Sancerre its smoky edge, and Laloue bottle it on its own from a single three-hectare parcel of forty-y...

The Cherrier family have farmed here since 1848, and this is Sancerre in its riper register - full and textured rather than lean, with th...

A four-grape white that ignores appellation lines to chase freshness, drawing Chardonnay, Petit Manseng and Chenin off cool clay-limeston...

Collavini's flagship white, and made the hard way: the Friulano and Chardonnay are dried on trays before pressing, which is why it has th...

The Collio's Ponca soils give Sauvignon a stony, savoury edge a long way from the tropical style most people know.

Louis Barruol of Château de Saint Cosme is one of the Rhône's most respected winemakers, and this is his négoce label working outside app...

One of the benchmark dry whites of Bordeaux, grown on a single organically certified block of Günz gravel and fermented entirely in barrel.

White Bordeaux made the serious way: one 1.80-hectare plot of clay and limestone, hand-picked at dawn, fermented in barrel with bâtonnage...

Sauvignon Gris is the quieter, rounder cousin of Sauvignon Blanc, and at 80% of the blend it gives this wine weight that a standard Borde...

White Bordeaux at this price is usually plain Sauvignon Blanc; the 28% Muscadelle here adds the floral, orange-spice note that makes the ...

Leyda sits close enough to the Pacific that the Humboldt Current does the cooling work a cellar would do elsewhere, and this vineyard was...