A white wine grape that is grown world-wide. Famously used in Loire to make distinctive Sancerre & Pouilly-Fumé wines (which are often mistaken for grape varieties, but are actually wine-making areas). In the New World, the Marlborough region of New Zealand is now famed for its Sauvignon Blanc production. Common characteristics can include notes of grass, nettles, blackcurrant leaf, apple & gooseberry. There is also sometimes a more stony note, like gunflint, which is characteristic of limestone soils such as in Pouilly-Fumé wine.
